Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 88

When all the people had assembled, it was noticed that there were very few chiefs present as most of them and the head men had joined the witches’ society.

Who acts: people, few chiefs, most · What happens: assemble, notice, be, present, join · To what, where: drum, society

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 (people, few chiefs, most), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 assembled	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 people	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 assembled	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 assembled	aux
6	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 noticed	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 assembled	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 noticed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 noticed	aux:pass
10	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 were	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 present	advcl
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 few	advmod
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chiefs	amod
16	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 present	nsubj
17	present	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 noticed	parataxis
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 joined	mark
19	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 joined	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 most	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 joined	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 men	det
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 men	compound
25	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 joined	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 joined	aux
27	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 present	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 witches	det
29	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 society	nmod:poss
30	’	's	PART	_	29 witches	case
31	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 joined	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assemble	past · perfect	all people				vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	notice	past · passive		drum			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	be	past	few chiefs not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	present	present	few chiefs				tree rules
5	join	past · perfect	most of people	the witches's society		the head men nsubj	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 88