Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 42
In the evening Chief ’Ndabu came with his family, and they all enjoyed their dinner.
Who acts: Ndabu, quantities · What happens: come, enjoy · To what, where: dinner
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 (Ndabu, quantities), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ndabu | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 4 Chief | case |
| 6 | Ndabu | Ndabu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 enjoyed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 enjoyed | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 enjoyed | advmod |
| 15 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enjoyed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Chief's Ndabu | evening | with chief's family | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | enjoy | past | quantities = quantity | quantities's dinner | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus |
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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