Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 35
You must therefore hand me to Kaku’s son as his wife, and I will go off with him to his country.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: hand, go off · To what, where: me, son
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hand | aux |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 hand | advmod |
| 4 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hand | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 son | case |
| 7 | Kaku | Kaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Kaku | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hand | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 go | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 country | nmod:poss |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | must | You | me | Kaku's son | as son's wife; therefore property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to son=Destination | ||
| 2 | go off | future | I | with son; to son's country | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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