Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 84
The chief made a rule that each woman slave should bring him at the end of every seven days twelve balls or cakes of camwood.
Who acts: chief, woman slave · What happens: make, bring · To what, where: rule, end
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 (chief, woman slave), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rule | det |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bring | obj |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 slave | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slave | compound |
| 9 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 rule | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 days | det |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 end | nmod |
| 20 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 balls | nummod |
| 21 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 days | conj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 cakes | cc |
| 23 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 days | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 camwood | case |
| 25 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cakes | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the chief | a rule | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product | ||||
| 2 | bring | should | each woman slave | a rule | at the end of every seven days and twelve balls or cakes of camwood | Inkum obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme he=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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