Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 39
The chief called ’Ndere to him and asked her what her wishes were on the subject. ’
Who acts: chief, Ndere · What happens: call, ask, be, wish · To what, where: chief, Ndere, subject · 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, Ndere), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chief | acl |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ndere | punct |
| 5 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Ndere | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 subject | nsubj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 subject | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 subject | cop |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 subject | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 subject | det |
| 17 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 subject | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 subject | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the chief not said here | Ndere to Chief xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the chief | Ndere | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the subject | what nsubj; Ndere's wishes nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish | Ndere | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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