Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 22
He also gave them plenty to eat and drink so that they might rejoice with him in his good fortune.
Who acts: chief, clothes · What happens: give, eat, drink, rejoice · To what, where: plenty, clothes, good fortune
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 (chief, clothes), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 plenty | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drink | cc |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 eat | conj |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 rejoice | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rejoice | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 rejoice | aux |
| 14 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 drink | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rejoice | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 fortune | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fortune | amod |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rejoice | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | chief | plenty | clothes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient plenty=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | chief not said here | plenty not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | chief not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | might | clothes | chief's good fortune | with chief | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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