Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 12

So the python said, “I want to marry ’Ndere, the daughter of Chief Kekong of Okuni, but, as I have no hands or feet, she will not look at me.

Who acts: python, Ndere · What happens: say, want, marry, have, not look · To what, where: Ndere, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (python, Ndere), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 python	det
3	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 want	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 want	xcomp
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Ndere	punct
12	Ndere	Ndere	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 daughter	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 daughter	det
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ndere	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Kekong	case
17	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Kekong	compound
18	Kekong	Kekong	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Okuni	case
20	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Kekong	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 look	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 look	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 but	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 look	advcl
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 hands	det
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 feet	cc
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hands	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 look	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 look	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 look	advmod
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 look	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the python			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	the python = python			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the python = python not said here	Ndere		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ndere=Patient
4	have in a quote	present	the python = python	no hands or feet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	not look in a quote	future	Ndere		at the python = python	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 12