Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 95
They cut small bits of flesh from him, and cooked it before his eyes.
Who acts: people · What happens: cut, cook · To what, where: small bits, flesh
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bits | amod |
| 4 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cut | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 flesh | case |
| 6 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bits | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cooked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cooked | cc |
| 11 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cooked | obj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cooked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | people | small bits of flesh | from chief | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset bit=Product from he=Material | |||
| 2 | cook | past | people not said here | flesh | before chief's eyes | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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