Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 50
It should be remembered that the feelings of the girl are in no way considered, and she is handed to the man, as a wife, who is in a position to pay the largest amount of dowry.
Who acts: feelings, wife · What happens: remember, be, consider, hand, pay, amount · To what, where: much, way, opinion, man, position, largest amount
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 (feelings, wife), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remembered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 remembered | aux:pass |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 way | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feelings | det |
| 7 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 way | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 girl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feelings | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 way | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obl |
| 15 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 way | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 handed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 handed | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 handed | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 handed | aux:pass |
| 20 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 remembered | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wife | punct |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wife | det |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handed | obl:agent |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 position | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 position | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 position | cop |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 position | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 position | det |
| 33 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wife | appos |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 pay | mark |
| 35 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 position | acl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 amount | det |
| 37 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 amount | amod |
| 38 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pay | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 dowry | case |
| 40 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 amount | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | should · passive | much | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the feelings of the girl | no way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consider | participle | no way not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hand | present · passive | a wife | opinion | the man | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to man=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | present | a wife | a position | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive | a wife not said here | the largest amount of dowry | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Asset | ||||
| 7 | amount | dowry | nom amount «possession 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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