Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 4
Ndere was very vain of her personal appearance, and although her parents frequently tried to get her to marry, she always refused.
Who acts: Ndere · What happens: be, try, get, marry, refuse · To what, where: Ndere
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 (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 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vain | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vain | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 vain | advmod |
| 4 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 appearance | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 appearance | amod |
| 8 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vain | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 11 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 13 parents | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tried | obl |
| 14 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 15 tried | advmod |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vain | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 get | mark |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 marry | mark |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 get | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 refused | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 refused | nsubj |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 refused | advmod |
| 24 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vain | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ndere | of Ndere's personal appearance; vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | past | Ndere not said here | although Ndere's parents; frequently property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ndere not said here | Ndere | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | Ndere not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | refuse | past | Ndere | always property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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