Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 9
When Chief Awum heard this, it made him angry, so he made a scheme or plan to rid the society of the Enfitop boys, who were no longer of any use, as they had paid up their presents to the society.
Who acts: Chief, dissatisfaction, society · What happens: hear, make, rid, be, pay up · To what, where: this, Chief, scheme, society
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 (Chief, dissatisfaction, society), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | Awum | Awum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chief | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 made | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 scheme | det |
| 16 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 plan | cc |
| 18 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scheme | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rid | mark |
| 20 | rid | rid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 plan | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 society | det |
| 22 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rid | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 boys | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boys | det |
| 25 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 boys | compound |
| 26 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 society | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 use | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 use | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 use | cop |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 longer | advmod |
| 31 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 use | advmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 use | case |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 use | det |
| 34 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 society | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 paid | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 paid | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 paid | aux |
| 39 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 paid | compound:prt |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 presents | nmod:poss |
| 42 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 paid | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 society | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 society | det |
| 45 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 paid | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Chief | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past | dissatisfaction | Chief | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product | |||
| 3 | make | past | Chief | a scheme or plan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Product | ||||
| 4 | rid | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | the society of the Enfitop boys and any use | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=Source | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the society of the Enfitop boys and any use | of any use; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pay up | past · perfect · passive | society | to the society; society's presents obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient present=Asset |
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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