Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 59
Then Chief Elullo said, you have a father and mother and plenty of brothers and sisters, we shall be pleased to eat any of them.
Who acts: Chief, you, we · What happens: say, have, be, eat · To what, where: father, any · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chief, you, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Elullo | Elullo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chief | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 father | det |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mother | cc |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 plenty | cc |
| 13 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 brothers | case |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 plenty | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sisters | cc |
| 17 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brothers | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pleased | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pleased | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pleased | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pleased | cop |
| 22 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 have | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pleased | xcomp |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 eat | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 any | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Chief | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | a father and mother and plenty of brothers and sisters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | we | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | we not said here | any of sisters | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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