Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 22
Chief Kekong said he would think over what the python had said, but warned him that ’Ndere had already refused his father.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: say, think, warn, refuse · To what, where: python, Chief, Ndere · 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Kekong | Kekong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 python | det |
| 10 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 warned | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 warned | cc |
| 15 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 warned | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 refused | mark |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 refused | punct |
| 19 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 refused | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 refused | aux |
| 21 | already | already | ADV | _ | 22 refused | advmod |
| 22 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 warned | ccomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 refused | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | would | Chief | what obl | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the python | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | past | Chief not said here | Chief | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | refuse | past · perfect · passive | Ndere | Chief's father obj | tree rules |
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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