Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 13

I therefore want you to lend me a face, teeth, arms and legs, so that I would appear to her as a stranger, and she would then marry me.”

Who acts: I, you, Ndere · What happens: want, lend, appear, marry · To what, where: you, face, me, Ndere

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 (I, you, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 want	advmod
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 want	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lend	mark
6	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lend	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 face	det
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lend	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 teeth	punct
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 face	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arms	punct
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 teeth	appos
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 legs	cc
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arms	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 appear	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 appear	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 appear	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 appear	aux
21	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lend	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 appear	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 stranger	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stranger	det
26	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 appear	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 marry	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 marry	cc
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 marry	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 marry	aux
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 marry	advmod
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 marry	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	you			therefore property	tree rules
2	lend not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a face and teeth	me			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient face=Theme
3	appear	would	I		Ndere		as a stranger	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	marry	would	Ndere	me		then		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 13