Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 25
That night, when everyone had gone to sleep, Chief Kekong woke his wife up and called ’Ndere to come.
Who acts: everyone, Chief · What happens: go, sleep, wake up, call, come · To what, where: wife · 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 (everyone, 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 gone | advmod |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sleep | mark |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gone | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 woke | punct |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 woke | nsubj |
| 12 | Kekong | Kekong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chief | flat |
| 13 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woke | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 woke | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 called | cc |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 woke | conj |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ndere | punct |
| 20 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 called | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | everyone | night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wake up | past | Chief | Chief's wife | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | Chief not said here | Ndere xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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