Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 37

The tortoise then beat his drum louder and louder, and faster and faster, telling the ju-ju man to dance further off, as he would hear the drum better.

Who acts: tortoise, man · What happens: beat, tell, dance, hear · To what, where: drum, ju man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tortoise, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 beat	advmod
4	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 drum	nmod:poss
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obj
7	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 beat	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 louder	cc
9	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 louder	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 faster	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 faster	cc
12	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 beat	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 faster	cc
14	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 faster	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 telling	punct
16	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 beat	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
18	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ju	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 ju	punct
20	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 man	compound
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 telling	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 dance	mark
23	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 telling	xcomp
24	further	further	ADV	_	25 off	advmod
25	off	off	ADV	_	23 dance	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hear	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 hear	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hear	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 hear	aux
30	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 dance	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 drum	det
32	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hear	obj
33	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 hear	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	the tortoise	tortoise's drum		then	loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	the tortoise not said here		the ju man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	the tortoise not said here				off property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	would	man	the drum			good property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus

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, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 37