Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 15
The python promised the chief that if he would lend him the different parts of the body which he required he would return them all to him after he had married ’Ndere.
Who acts: python, body · What happens: promise, lend, require, return, marry · To what, where: chief, different parts, face, python
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, body), 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 python | det |
| 2 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lend | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 lend | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lend | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 lend | aux |
| 10 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lend | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 parts | det |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 parts | amod |
| 14 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lend | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 parts | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 required | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 required | nsubj |
| 20 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 body | acl:relcl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 return | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 return | aux |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 required | xcomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 return | obj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 return | obl |
| 28 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 31 married | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 married | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 married | aux |
| 31 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 return | advcl |
| 32 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 31 married | conj |
| 33 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 ’ | goeswith |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the python | the chief | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lend a condition, not said to happen | would | python | the different parts of the body | Chief | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient part=Theme | |||
| 3 | require | past | the body | python nsubj | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | return | would | python | face | Chief | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 5 | marry | past · perfect · passive | python | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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