Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 48
Amoru eat the yam, but took the flesh home and hid it.
Who acts: Amoru · What happens: eat, take, hide · To what, where: yam, flesh
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 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 yam | det |
| 4 | yam | yam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eat | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 eat | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flesh | det |
| 9 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hid | cc |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hid | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Amoru | the yam | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yam=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the flesh | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | flesh | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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