Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 63

The hare then asked his friend to step into his back room and allow him to speak to his wife from the door when she came.

Who acts: hare, wife · What happens: ask, step, allow, speak, come · To what, where: friend, back room, hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 asked	advmod
4	asked	ask	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 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 step	mark
8	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 room	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 room	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	compound
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 step	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 allow	cc
14	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 step	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allow	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 speak	mark
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 allow	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speak	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wife	nmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 came	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the hare	hare's friend		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	step not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hare not said here		hare's back room			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
3	allow	infinitive	the hare not said here	hare				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hare not said here				to hare's wife from the door	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wife=Co-Agent
5	come	past	wife					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 63