Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 31

Later the mother would be given two bars of salt, one spoon, one bar of soap, and twenty yams, the balance of the dowry being paid on the completion of the marriage ceremony.

Who acts: dowry · What happens: give, pay, balance, complete · To what, where: mother, completion, marriage ceremony

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dowry), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 given	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mother	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 paid	advcl
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bars	nummod
8	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 given	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 salt	case
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bars	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spoon	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 spoon	nummod
13	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bars	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bar	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 bar	nummod
16	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 soap	case
18	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bar	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 yams	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 yams	cc
21	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 yams	nummod
22	yams	yam	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 given	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 balance	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 balance	det
25	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yams	appos
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 dowry	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dowry	det
28	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 balance	nmod
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 paid	aux:pass
30	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 completion	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 completion	det
33	completion	completion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 paid	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 ceremony	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ceremony	det
36	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ceremony	compound
37	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 completion	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	would · passive		the mother		one bar of soap obl; twenty yams obl; two bars of salt and one spoon obj; late property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient bar=Theme
2	pay	gerund · passive			the completion of the marriage ceremony		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»
3	balance		the dowry				nom balance «state intransitive»: of=agent
4	complete			the marriage ceremony			nom completion «act transitive»: of=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, Opening, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 31