Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 77
Chief Elullo said it was Amoru’s turn to provide a body for food and asked him who he was going to give.
Who acts: Chief, bed · What happens: say, be, provide, ask, go, give · To what, where: turn, body, Amoru · 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 (Chief, bed), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Elullo | Elullo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | cop |
| 6 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Amoru | case |
| 8 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 provide | mark |
| 10 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 turn | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 body | det |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 provide | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 food | case |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 body | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 going | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | bed | Amoru's turn | Amoru nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | provide | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | a body | for food | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition body=Theme for food=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Chief not said here | Amoru | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | who nsubj; Amoru nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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