Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 43

There appears to be a considerable divergence of opinion between the chiefs and the young men as to whom the children brought forth by a woman before her marriage should belong.

Who acts: children, girl · What happens: appear, be, bring, belong, marry · To what, where: considerable divergence, children, marriage

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 (children, girl), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 appears	expl
2	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	7 divergence	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 divergence	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 divergence	det
6	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 divergence	amod
7	divergence	divergence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appears	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 opinion	case
9	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 divergence	nmod
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 chiefs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chiefs	det
12	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 opinion	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 men	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 men	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 men	amod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 chiefs	conj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 whom	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 whom	case
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 appears	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 belong	nsubj
22	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 children	acl
23	forth	forth	ADV	_	22 brought	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 woman	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obl
27	before	before	ADP	_	29 marriage	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 marriage	nmod:poss
29	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brought	obl
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 belong	aux
31	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 whom	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present			there	whom obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		a considerable divergence		of opinion between the chiefs and the young men	tree rules
3	bring	participle		the children not said here	girl's marriage	by a woman; forth property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before marriage=Destination
4	belong	should	the children				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	marry		girl				nom marriage «state 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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 43