Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 83
But Nkanyan called out in a loud voice for everyone to come out and seize the witches, and very soon they were all caught and securely fastened up.
Who acts: everyone · What happens: call out, come out, seize, catch, fasten up · To what, where: Nkanyan, loud voice, witches, houses
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 (everyone), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 2 | Nkanyan | Nkanyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 voice | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 voice | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seize | cc |
| 15 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 witches | det |
| 17 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seize | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 caught | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 caught | cc |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 soon | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 caught | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | aux:pass |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 caught | advmod |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 called | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fastened | cc |
| 27 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 28 fastened | advmod |
| 28 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 caught | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 fastened | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | Nkanyan | a loud voice | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come out | to-infinitive | everyone | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seize | infinitive | everyone not said here | the witches | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | past · passive | houses = house | all, soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fasten up | participle | securely property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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