Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 108
A month later Chief ’Ndabu died and his funeral was attended by all the chiefs and people of the town.
Who acts: Ndabu, chiefs · What happens: die, attend · To what, where: funeral
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 (Ndabu, chiefs), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 died | advmod |
| 4 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ndabu | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 4 Chief | case |
| 6 | Ndabu | Ndabu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 attended | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 10 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attended | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 attended | aux:pass |
| 12 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 died | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 chiefs | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 chiefs | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chiefs | det |
| 16 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 attended | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 people | cc |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chiefs | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Chief's Ndabu | late property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | attend | past · passive | all chiefs and people of the town | chief's funeral | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal |
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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