Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 104
When the boy returned to Okuni, he told the people that he was quite cured and was no longer a witch man.
Who acts: boy · What happens: return, tell, cure, be · To what, where: Okuni, people, boy, witch man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy), 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 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Okuni | case |
| 6 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 cured | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cured | aux:pass |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 cured | advmod |
| 16 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 told | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 man | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 man | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | compound |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cured | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the boy | Okuni | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to okuni=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | boy | the people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cure | past · passive | boy | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | a witch man | long property | tree rules |
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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