Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 113
Nkanyan then took the place of his father and looked after his mother and brothers and sisters, who lived in peace and died natural deaths without being troubled by witches.
Who acts: Nkanyan, brothers, witches · What happens: take, look, live, die, trouble · To what, where: place, peace, natural deaths
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 (Nkanyan, brothers, witches), 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 | Nkanyan | Nkanyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brothers | cc |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mother | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sisters | cc |
| 17 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brothers | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 peace | case |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lived | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 died | cc |
| 24 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lived | conj |
| 25 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deaths | amod |
| 26 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 died | obj |
| 27 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 29 troubled | mark |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 troubled | aux:pass |
| 29 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 died | advcl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 witches | case |
| 31 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 troubled | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Nkanyan | the place of Nkanyan's father | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | Nkanyan not said here | after Nkanyan's mother and brothers and sisters | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | live | past | brothers and sisters | peace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 4 | die | past | brothers and sisters not said here | natural deaths | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | trouble | gerund · passive | witches | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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