Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 49
He hid the meat inside his mother’s fire-place, and covered it over with pots.
Who acts: Amoru · What happens: hide, cover over · To what, where: meat, fire place
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meat | det |
| 4 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fire | punct |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 covered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 covered | cc |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 covered | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 covered | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pots | case |
| 18 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 covered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Amoru | the meat | Amoru's mother's fire place | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Patient inside place=Location | |||
| 2 | cover over | past | meat | with pots | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with pot=Theme |
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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