Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 76
That evening, after all the people had gone to bed, the witches met as usual for their feast and play, and Amoru went and joined them.
Who acts: people, Amoru · What happens: go, meet, join · To what, where: witches, 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 (people, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 gone | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 people | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 evening | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 witches | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witches | det |
| 14 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | obl |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 witches | acl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 usual | case |
| 17 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 met | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 feast | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 feast | nmod:poss |
| 20 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 play | cc |
| 22 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feast | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 25 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 joined | cc |
| 28 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 went | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 joined | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | all people | the witches | to bed | tree rules | |||
| 2 | meet | participle | the witches not said here | as usual; for people's feast and play | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Amoru | evening | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | join | past | Amoru not said here | people | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/9/76/