Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 38
When the morning came, the python went to Chief Kekong and asked him for his decision with regard to his daughter.
Who acts: morning, python · What happens: come, go, ask, decide · To what, where: Chief, python
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 (morning, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 python | det |
| 7 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Chief | case |
| 10 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | Kekong | Kekong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Chief | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 decision | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 decision | nmod:poss |
| 17 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 regard | case |
| 19 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 decision | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 daughter | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 regard | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the python | Chief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the python not said here | python | for python's decision with regard to python's daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | decide | python | with regard to python's daughter | nom decision «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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