Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 90
He told the people all that had happened and the number of people he had seen killed and eaten.
Who acts: Amoru, that, people · What happens: tell, happen, see, kill, eat · To what, where: people · 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, that, people), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 happened | det:predet |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 number | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 seen | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eaten | cc |
| 19 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 killed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Amoru | the people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | the number of people conj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Amoru | people not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | participle | people not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | eat | participle | people not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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