Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 65
When the time came for Amoru to supply a man to be eaten, he began to get frightened.
Who acts: time, man · What happens: come, supply, eat, begin, get, frighten · To what, where: 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 (time, man), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 began | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Amoru | case |
| 6 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 supply | mark |
| 8 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supply | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eaten | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 eaten | aux:pass |
| 13 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 man | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 began | nsubj |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 began | xcomp |
| 19 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 get | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | for Amoru | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | supply | to-infinitive | the time not said here | a man | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive · passive | the time not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | frighten | participle | man not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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