Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 8
But Ori’s father being obstinate and very headstrong, insisted upon his claim so fiercely that the chief gave in and ordered the slaves to be paid.
Who acts: father, chief · What happens: be, insist, give in, order, pay, claim · To what, where: slaves
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, chief), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 obstinate | cc |
| 2 | Ori | Ori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ori | case |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obstinate | nsubj |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 obstinate | cop |
| 6 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 headstrong | cc |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 headstrong | advmod |
| 9 | headstrong | headstrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 obstinate | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 insisted | punct |
| 11 | insisted | insist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 obstinate | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 claim | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 claim | nmod:poss |
| 14 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 insisted | obl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fiercely | advmod |
| 16 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 20 gave | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 gave | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chief | det |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 insisted | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 gave | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ordered | cc |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gave | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 slaves | det |
| 25 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ordered | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 paid | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 paid | aux:pass |
| 28 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ordered | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obstinate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | Ori's father | obstinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Ori's father not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | insist speech: other | participle | Ori's father not said here | upon father's claim | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give in | past | the chief | fiercely property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | order | past | the chief not said here | the slaves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive · passive | the chief not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 7 | claim | father | nom claim «communication 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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