Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 2
He was considered to be a rich man in that part of the country, and was the owner of numerous slaves.
What happens: consider, be · To what, where: Okuni, rich man, part, owner
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 considered | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 considered | aux:pass |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 man | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 owner | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 owner | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 owner | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 owner | det |
| 19 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 slaves | case |
| 21 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 slaves | amod |
| 22 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 owner | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past · passive | Okuni | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a rich man | that part of the country | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the owner | of numerous slaves | tree rules |
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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