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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 109

His body was dressed up in his best clothes and it was made to sit up in a chair, some of his wives fanning it to keep the flies off.

Who acts: body, wives · What happens: dress up, make, sit up, fan, keep off · To what, where: body, best clothes, chair, flies

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 (body, wives), 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

nmod:possnsubjaux:passcompound:prtcasenmod:possamodoblccnsubj:passaux:passconjmarkxcompcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctnmodcasenmod:possnmodaclobjmarkadvcldetobjcompound:prtpunctrootHisPRONbodyNOUNwasAUXdressedVERBupADPinADPhisPRONbestADJclothesNOUNandCCONJitPRONwasAUXmadeVERBtoPARTsitVERBupADPinADPaDETchairNOUN,PUNCTsomeDETofADPhisPRONwivesNOUNfanningVERBitPRONtoPARTkeepVERBtheDETfliesNOUNoffADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 bodynmod:poss
2bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing4 dressednsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 dressedaux:pass
4dresseddressVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5upupADP_4 dressedcompound:prt
6ininADP_9 clothescase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 clothesnmod:poss
8bestgoodADJDegree=Sup9 clothesamod
9clothesclothesNOUNNumber=Ptan4 dressedobl
10andandCCONJ_13 madecc
11ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 madensubj:pass
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 madeaux:pass
13mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 dressedconj
14totoPART_15 sitmark
15sitsitVERBVerbForm=Inf13 madexcomp
16upupADP_15 sitcompound:prt
17ininADP_19 chaircase
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 chairdet
19chairchairNOUNNumber=Sing15 sitobl
20,,PUNCT_21 somepunct
21somesomeDETPronType=Ind19 chairnmod
22ofofADP_24 wivescase
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 wivesnmod:poss
24wiveswifeNOUNNumber=Plur21 somenmod
25fanningfanVERBVerbForm=Ger24 wivesacl
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 fanningobj
27totoPART_28 keepmark
28keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf25 fanningadvcl
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 fliesdet
30fliesflyNOUNNumber=Plur28 keepobj
31offoffADP_28 keepcompound:prt
32..PUNCT_4 dressedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1dress uppast · passivechief's bodychief's best clothesvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2makepast · passivebodytree rules
3sit upto-infinitivebody not said herea chair some of chief's wivesvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
4fangerundchief's wives not said herebodytree rules
5keep offto-infinitivechief's wives not said herethe fliesvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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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