Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 77
You have killed and eaten many of the Enfitop people and told me nothing about it.
What happens: kill, eat, tell · To what, where: You, many, nothing, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | cc |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 killed | conj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eaten | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 9 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 people | compound |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 many | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 told | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nothing | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · perfect · passive | You | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | participle | many of the Enfitop people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | nothing | me | about leader | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nothing=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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