Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 106

The people then collected all the ashes of the witches who had been burnt and threw them into the river, saying they had got rid of all the witches in their town.

Who acts: people · What happens: collect, burnt, throw, say, get · To what, where: ashes, witches, people, river · 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 (people), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 collected	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 collected	advmod
4	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 ashes	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ashes	det
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 collected	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 witches	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witches	det
10	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ashes	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 burnt	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 burnt	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 burnt	aux:pass
14	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 witches	acl:relcl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 burnt	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 river	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saying	punct
22	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 collected	advcl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 got	aux
25	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 saying	ccomp
26	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 got	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 witches	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 witches	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 witches	det
30	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rid	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 town	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 town	nmod:poss
33	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 witches	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	collect	past	the people	all ashes of the witches	then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
2	burnt	past · perfect · passive		the witches			tree rules
3	throw	past		people		into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into river=Result
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the people not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	past · perfect	people			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 106

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 106