Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 70
Amoru then told his brother to lie down in a bed opposite the door, but that he was not to go to sleep.
Who acts: Amoru · What happens: tell, lie down, not be · To what, where: brother, bed · 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 (Amoru), 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 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lie | mark |
| 7 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 lie | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lie | obl |
| 12 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lie | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 go | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 go | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sleep | case |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Amoru | Amoru's brother | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | lie down not said to happen | to-infinitive | Amoru not said here | a bed | opposite the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 3 | not is not said to happen | past | Amoru | to sleep; go property | tree rules |
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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