Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 100
The sons and daughters of the witches were sorry to lose their parents, but they were glad that all the witches in the town had been caught and disposed of.
Who acts: sons, parents · What happens: be, lose, catch, dispose · To what, where: parents, witches
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, parents), 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 sons | det |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 daughters | cc |
| 4 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sons | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 witches | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witches | det |
| 7 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sons | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sorry | cop |
| 9 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 lose | mark |
| 11 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sorry | xcomp |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lose | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 glad | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 glad | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | cop |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sorry | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 caught | mark |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 witches | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witches | det |
| 22 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 town | det |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 witches | nmod |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 caught | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 caught | aux:pass |
| 28 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 glad | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 disposed | cc |
| 30 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 caught | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 disposed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sons of the witches and daughters | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | the sons of the witches and daughters not said here | daughters's parents | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | parents = parent | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | past · perfect · passive | all witches in the town | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | dispose | participle | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: 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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