Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 112
The body was then wrapped up in sleeping mats and buried, and many rods and pieces of cloth were placed in the grave.
What happens: wrap up, bury, place · To what, where: body, sleeping mats, many rods, grave
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: 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 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wrapped | advmod |
| 5 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mats | case |
| 8 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mats | compound |
| 9 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 buried | cc |
| 11 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wrapped | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 placed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 placed | cc |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rods | amod |
| 15 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pieces | cc |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rods | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cloth | case |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pieces | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 placed | aux:pass |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wrapped | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 grave | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grave | det |
| 24 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 placed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | past · passive | the body | sleeping mats | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mat=Destination | |||
| 2 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | many rods and pieces of cloth | the grave | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/9/112/