Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 54
The dead man was then cut up and cooked with yams.
What happens: cut up, cook · To what, where: dead man
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | aux:pass |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 cut | advmod |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 cut | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cooked | cc |
| 9 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cut | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 yams | case |
| 11 | yams | yam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cooked | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut up | past · passive | the dead man | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | cook | participle | with yams | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient with yam=Instrument |
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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