Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 6
At last, the Chief consulted a ju-ju man, and gave him a big “dash.”
Who acts: last Chief · What happens: consult, give · To what, where: ju man, big dash, 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: who acts (last Chief), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Chief | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Chief | det |
| 5 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 consulted | nsubj |
| 6 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 8 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ju | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ju | punct |
| 10 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consulted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 consulted | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dash | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dash | amod |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 dash | punct |
| 19 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consulted | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | the last Chief | a ju man | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the last Chief not said here | a big dash | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dash=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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