Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 41
One portion of the food he set aside for the boy Amoru, and this portion was bewitched.
Who acts: One portion · What happens: set, bewitch · To what, where: portion
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 (One portion), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 portion | nummod |
| 2 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 food | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 portion | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 boy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 12 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 boy | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bewitched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bewitched | cc |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 portion | det |
| 16 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bewitched | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bewitched | aux:pass |
| 18 | bewitched | bewitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 set | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | One portion of the food | for the boy; portion nsubj; aside property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for boy=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | bewitch | past · passive | this portion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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