Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 64
The witch people used to play every night from the time other people went to bed until cock crow when they were obliged to go home.
Who acts: witch people, other people, cock · What happens: use, play, go, crow, oblige · To what, where: time, people
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 (witch people, other people, cock), 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 people | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obl |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 crow | mark |
| 18 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crow | nsubj |
| 19 | crow | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 play | advcl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 obliged | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 obliged | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 obliged | aux:pass |
| 23 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 crow | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 obliged | xcomp |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the witch people | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | the witch people not said here | night; time | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | other people | the time not said here | to bed | tree rules | |||
| 4 | crow | present | cock | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | oblige | past · passive | people | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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