Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 46
By this time a lot of witches had arrived, and when Amoru came out he was surprised to see so many people.
Who acts: Amoru · What happens: arrive, come out, be, see · To what, where: lot, many people
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 (Amoru), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 witches | case |
| 7 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lot | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arrived | aux |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 surprised | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 surprised | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 surprised | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 surprised | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 surprised | cop |
| 18 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 arrived | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 surprised | advcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 many | advmod |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | a lot of witches | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | Amoru | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Amoru | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Amoru not said here | many people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=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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