Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 80
To this the chief agreed, and Amoru showed the way to his father’s house, and having opened the door showed them the bed where Nkanyan was supposed to be sleeping.
Who acts: Amoru, having · What happens: agree, show, have, open, suppose, sleep · To what, where: way, house, door, houses, Nkanyan · 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, having), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 chief | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | obl |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 showed | cc |
| 8 | Amoru | Amoru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | nsubj |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 father | case |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 way | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 showed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 showed | cc |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 showed | csubj |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 having | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opened | obj |
| 23 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 showed | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 showed | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bed | det |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 showed | obj |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 supposed | advmod |
| 28 | Nkanyan | Nkanyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 supposed | aux:pass |
| 30 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 showed | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 sleeping | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 sleeping | aux |
| 33 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 supposed | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | to this chief | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | show | past | Amoru | the way | Amoru's father's house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Topic to house=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show | past | having | houses = house | the bed obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bed=Topic | |||
| 6 | suppose | past · passive | Nkanyan | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sleep | to-infinitive · progressive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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