Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 33
At last, some of the townspeople met together and decided to get rid of the chief and all his family.
Who acts: some · What happens: meet, decide, get · To what, where: last
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 (some), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 met | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 met | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 townspeople | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 townspeople | det |
| 7 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 met | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 decided | cc |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 met | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 chief | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rid | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 family | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 family | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 family | nmod:poss |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chief | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | some of the townspeople | last | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | decide | past | some of the townspeople not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | some of the townspeople not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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