Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 18
Chief Kaku gave the python one young boy to accompany him back to Okuni, and the following day the python set off on his journey, wearing all his borrowed limbs.
Who acts: Chief, python · What happens: give, accompany, follow, set off, wear, borrow · To what, where: python, journey, borrowed limbs
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 (Chief, python), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | Kaku | Kaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 python | det |
| 5 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 boy | nummod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boy | amod |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 accompany | mark |
| 10 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 accompany | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 accompany | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Okuni | case |
| 14 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 back | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 python | det |
| 21 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | nsubj |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 journey | nmod:poss |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wearing | punct |
| 28 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 set | advcl |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 limbs | det:predet |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 31 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 limbs | amod |
| 32 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 wearing | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Chief | the python | one young boy obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent python=Recipient boy=Theme | |||
| 2 | accompany | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | python | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | set off | past | the python | python's journey | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | wear | gerund | the python not said here | python's borrowed limbs | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent limb=Source | ||||
| 6 | borrow | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | journey | python | nom journey «act 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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