Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 21
Then Chief Kekong, who knew Chief Kaku, as he had tried to marry ’Ndere but failed, called for some palm wine, which was brought and given to the python.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: know, try, marry, fail, call, bring · To what, where: Chief, Ndere, palm wine, python · 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 (Chief), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 knew | advmod |
| 2 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | Kekong | Kekong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chief | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | obj |
| 8 | Kaku | Kaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Chief | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 tried | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tried | aux |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 knew | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 marry | mark |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ndere | punct |
| 17 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 marry | obj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 failed | cc |
| 19 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knew | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 failed | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 wine | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 wine | det |
| 24 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wine | compound |
| 25 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 brought | aux:pass |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 wine | acl:relcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 given | cc |
| 31 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 brought | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 python | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 python | det |
| 34 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 given | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Chief | Chief | then | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer chief=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | try | past · perfect | Chief | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | Ndere | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ndere=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fail | past | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | call | participle | for some palm wine | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for wine=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | bring | past · passive | some palm wine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | give | participle | the python | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to python=Recipient |
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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