Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 12

He therefore crawled along sideways to the elephant’s house, and told the elephant’s wife that the place where they had been hunting was very cold and that her husband wished her to make him some good soup and that she was not to forget to put plenty of peppers in it.

Who acts: crab, sideways, husband, wife · What happens: crawl, tell, be, wish, make, not be · To what, where: house, wife, good soup, crab, plenty, hunting · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab, sideways, husband, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crawled	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 crawled	advmod
3	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	5 sideways	case
5	sideways	sideway	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crawled	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 elephant	det
8	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 elephant	case
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crawled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crawled	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 elephant	det
15	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wife	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 elephant	case
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 place	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	ccomp
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 cold	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cold	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cold	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 cold	cop
25	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cold	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cold	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 cold	advmod
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 place	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wished	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 wished	mark
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 husband	nmod:poss
32	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wished	nsubj
33	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 cold	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wished	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 make	mark
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wished	advcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 make	obj
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 soup	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 soup	amod
40	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 make	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 forget	cc
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 forget	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 forget	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 forget	cop
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 forget	advmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 forget	mark
47	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 make	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 put	mark
49	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 forget	xcomp
50	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 put	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 peppers	case
52	peppers	pepper	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 plenty	nmod
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 put	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	crawl	past	crab			the elephant's house	along sideways; therefore property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past			the elephant's wife		the place ccomp	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
3	is	past · perfect	sideways = sideway				hunting nsubj; cold property	tree rules
4	wish	past	wife's husband	wife				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	wife's husband not said here	some good soup	crab			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary soup=Product
6	not is	past	wife				forget property	tree rules
7	put	to-infinitive	wife not said here	plenty of peppers		hunting		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme in it=Destination

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, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 12

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 12