Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 105
The chiefs were very glad to hear of this, and sent Amoru round the towns, when he received many presents of cloth, rods, and tombo.
Who acts: chiefs, chief · What happens: be, hear, send, receive · To what, where: Amoru, many presents
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, chief), 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 | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 glad | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hear | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | parataxis |
| 13 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 towns | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 towns | det |
| 16 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 received | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 received | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 received | nsubj |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | conj |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 presents | amod |
| 22 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 received | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 cloth | case |
| 24 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 presents | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rods | punct |
| 26 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 presents | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tombo | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tombo | cc |
| 29 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the chiefs | tombo conj; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the chiefs not said here | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | send | past | Amoru | round the towns | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amoru=Theme | ||||
| 4 | receive | past | chief | many presents of cloth and rods | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
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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