Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 74
He must then call out to the people who must catch the witches and tie them up.
Who acts: calabash, people · What happens: call out, catch, tie up · To what, where: people, witches
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 (calabash, people), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 call | advmod |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 call | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 catch | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 catch | aux |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witches | det |
| 13 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 catch | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tie | cc |
| 15 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 catch | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tie | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 tie | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | must | calabash | the people | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | |||
| 2 | catch | must | the people | the witches | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tie up | infinitive | the people not said here | people | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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