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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 45

Agberamfe then placed his bundle of leaves under the crocodile, and having got it on to his head carried it up to the house and placed it in front of his father.

Who acts: Agberamfe, head · What happens: place, have, get on, carry up · To what, where: bundle, spear, house, front

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 (Agberamfe, head), 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

nsubjadvmodnmod:possobjcasenmodcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjconjobjcompound:prtmarknmod:possnsubjadvclobjcompound:prtcasedetoblccconjobjcaseoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootAgberamfePROPNthenADVplacedVERBhisPRONbundleNOUNofADPleavesNOUNunderADPtheDETcrocodileNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhavingVERBgotVERBitPRONonADPtoSCONJhisPRONheadNOUNcarriedVERBitPRONupADPtoADPtheDEThouseNOUNandCCONJplacedVERBitPRONinADPfrontNOUNofADPhisPRONfatherNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AgberamfeAgberamfePROPNNumber=Sing3 placednsubj
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem3 placedadvmod
3placedplaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 bundlenmod:poss
5bundlebundleNOUNNumber=Sing3 placedobj
6ofofADP_7 leavescase
7leavesleafNOUNNumber=Plur5 bundlenmod
8underunderADP_10 crocodilecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 crocodiledet
10crocodilecrocodileNOUNNumber=Sing7 leavesnmod
11,,PUNCT_14 gotpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 gotcc
13havinghaveVERBVerbForm=Ger14 gotnsubj
14gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 placedconj
15ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 gotobj
16ononADP_14 gotcompound:prt
17totoSCONJ_20 carriedmark
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 headnmod:poss
19headheadNOUNNumber=Sing20 carriednsubj
20carriedcarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 gotadvcl
21ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 carriedobj
22upupADP_20 carriedcompound:prt
23totoADP_25 housecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 housedet
25househouseNOUNNumber=Sing20 carriedobl
26andandCCONJ_27 placedcc
27placedplaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 placedconj
28ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 placedobj
29ininADP_30 frontcase
30frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing27 placedobl
31ofofADP_33 fathercase
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 fathernmod:poss
33fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing30 frontnmod
34..PUNCT_3 placedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1placepastAgberamfeAgberamfe's bundle of leaves under the crocodilethenvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
2havegerundvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3get onpastspearvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4carry uppastcrocodile's headspearthe housevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to house=Destination
5placepastAgberamfe not said herespearfront of crocodile's fathervn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=Destination

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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