Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 91
He also produced the basket of human flesh which had been given him as his share.
Who acts: Amoru · What happens: produce, give, share · To what, where: basket, human flesh, Amoru
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), 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 | 3 produced | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 produced | advmod |
| 3 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flesh | case |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flesh | amod |
| 8 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 basket | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 given | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flesh | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 given | iobj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 share | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 share | nmod:poss |
| 16 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | Amoru | the basket of human flesh | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect · passive | human flesh | Amoru | as Amoru's share | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | |||
| 3 | share | Amoru | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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