Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 5

The chief therefore made up his mind that his youngest son, Oga Erim, should inherit his property, and for several years taught him how to rule the people with a strong hand and to punish them severely if they did not work, as that was the way he had become rich.

Who acts: youngest son, people, that, son, Chief · What happens: make up, inherit, teach, rule, punish, not work · To what, where: chief, property, people, way

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest son, people, that, son), 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	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mind	nmod:poss
7	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 inherit	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
10	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 son	amod
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 inherit	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Oga	punct
13	Oga	Oga	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 son	appos
14	Erim	Erim	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Oga	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 inherit	aux
17	inherit	inherit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 property	nmod:poss
19	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 inherit	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 taught	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 taught	cc
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 years	case
23	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 years	amod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 taught	obl
25	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 taught	obj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 rule	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rule	mark
29	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 taught	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rule	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 hand	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hand	det
34	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hand	amod
35	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rule	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 punish	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 punish	mark
38	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 rule	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 punish	obj
40	severely	severely	ADV	_	38 punish	advmod
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 work	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 work	nsubj
43	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 work	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 work	advmod
45	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 punish	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 way	punct
47	as	as	ADP	_	51 way	case
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 way	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 way	cop
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 way	det
51	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 work	obl
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 become	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 become	aux
54	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 way	acl:relcl
55	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 become	xcomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle · passive		the chief			Chief's mind obj; therefore property	tree rules
2	inherit	should	Chief's youngest son	Chief's property				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Theme
3	teach speech: other	past			Chief	year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	rule	to-infinitive		the people			with a strong hand	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent people=Result
5	punish	to-infinitive		people			severely property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	not work a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	people					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	that				as the way	tree rules
8	become	past · perfect	son	the way not said here			rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient way=Result
9	mind		Chief					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 5

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 5