Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 9
Ori Namfup’s father then bought two slaves and handed them over to Ori’s father, in order to settle the matter and so that there should be no bad feeling between them.
Who acts: father · What happens: buy, hand over, settle, be · To what, where: two slaves, slaves, father, matter, bad feeling
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), 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 | Ori | Ori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Namfup | Namfup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ori | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ori | case |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | nsubj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 bought | advmod |
| 6 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 slaves | nummod |
| 8 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bought | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 handed | cc |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bought | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 handed | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 handed | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 father | case |
| 14 | Ori | Ori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Ori | case |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 handed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 settle | punct |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 settle | mark |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 settle | mark |
| 21 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 handed | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 matter | det |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 settle | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 feeling | cc |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 32 feeling | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 be | mark |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 be | expl |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 be | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 feeling | cop |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 feeling | det |
| 31 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 feeling | amod |
| 32 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | conj |
| 33 | between | between | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 feeling | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | Ori's father | two slaves | then | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | |||
| 2 | hand over | past | Ori's father not said here | slaves = slave | Ori's father | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to father=Destination | |||
| 3 | settle | to-infinitive | Ori's father not said here | the matter | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | Ori's father not said here | no bad feeling | between slaves = slave | tree rules |
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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