Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 39

He also asked them to allow him to be rowed across the river by an iguana, who is deaf and cannot hear anyone shouting.

Who acts: painting, iguana · What happens: ask, allow, row, be, not hear, shout · To what, where: alligators, painting, river, anyone

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (painting, iguana), 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 asked	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 asked	advmod
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 allow	mark
6	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 allow	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 rowed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 rowed	aux:pass
10	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 allow	advcl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rowed	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 iguana	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 iguana	det
16	iguana	iguana	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rowed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 deaf	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 deaf	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 deaf	cop
20	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 iguana	appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hear	cc
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 hear	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 hear	advmod
24	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 deaf	conj
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 hear	obj
26	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 anyone	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	painting		alligators = alligator			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive	painting not said here		painting			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	row	to-infinitive · passive	a iguana			the river		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across river=Trajectory
4	is	present	a iguana				deaf property	tree rules
5	not hear	can	a iguana not said here	anyone				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus
6	shout speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 39