Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 85
After two days their bodies floated and were picked up by the Inkum people who carried them back to their town and eat them.
Who acts: Inkum people · What happens: float, pick up, carry back, eat · To what, where: bodies, people, town
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: who acts (Inkum people), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 floated | obl |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 floated | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 picked | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 picked | aux:pass |
| 9 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 floated | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 picked | compound:prt |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 people | compound |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 picked | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carried | nsubj |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 carried | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 town | nmod:poss |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eat | cc |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | participle · passive | people's bodies | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past · passive | the Inkum people | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | carry back | past | the Inkum people | people | people's town | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 4 | eat | present | the Inkum people not said here | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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