Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 82
Directly this had been done, it became light at once, and all the witches were discovered naked, and at once started screaming and running away, trying to hide.
Who acts: way · What happens: do, become, discover, start, scream, run away · To what, where: this, 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 (way), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 became | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 light | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 discovered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 discovered | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 witches | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witches | det |
| 16 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 discovered | aux:pass |
| 18 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 became | conj |
| 19 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 discovered | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 started | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 started | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 started | obl |
| 24 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | conj |
| 25 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 started | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 running | cc |
| 27 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 screaming | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 running | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trying | punct |
| 30 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 screaming | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 hide | mark |
| 32 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 trying | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect · passive | this | directly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | become | past | way | light property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | discover | past · passive | all witches | naked property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | start | past | way not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | scream speech: express | gerund | way not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | run away | gerund | way not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | try | gerund | way not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | way not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «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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