Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 8
He advised the chief to pull down all the houses where his other wives lived and to send them away.
Who acts: man, chief, other wives · What happens: advise, pull down, live, send away · To what, where: chief, houses, wives
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 (man, chief, other wives), 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 | 2 advised | nsubj |
| 2 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 advised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pull | mark |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 advised | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 pull | compound:prt |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 houses | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 houses | det |
| 10 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pull | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | advmod |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wives | amod |
| 14 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 houses | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 send | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 send | mark |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pull | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 send | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 send | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | man | the chief | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pull down not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | all houses | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | man's other wives | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send away | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | wives = wife | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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