Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 101
The chiefs then consulted together as to how they should get the witch out of Amoru.
Who acts: chiefs, parents · What happens: consult, get · To what, where: witch, Amoru
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 (chiefs, 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consulted | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 consulted | advmod |
| 4 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 consulted | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 get | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consulted | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 Amoru | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Amoru | case |
| 16 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | the chiefs | then | together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | should | parents = parent | the witch | Amoru | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=Stimulus |
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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