Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 37
The slaves did as as they were ordered, and after three days returned and reported to the chief that everything had been done as he had directed.
Who acts: slaves, chief, crocodile · What happens: do, order, return, report, direct · To what, where: slaves, everything
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves, chief, crocodile), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 slaves | det |
| 2 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordered | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ordered | aux:pass |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 returned | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 days | nummod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 returned | obl |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reported | cc |
| 16 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 returned | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 chief | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chief | det |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reported | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 done | mark |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 done | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 chief | acl:relcl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 directed | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 directed | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 directed | aux |
| 28 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 done | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the slaves | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | order | past · passive | slaves = slave | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | participle | the slaves not said here | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | report | participle | the slaves not said here | to the chief | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to chief=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect · passive | the chief not said here | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | direct | past · perfect | crocodile | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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