Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 40
Ndere said, “I am willing to marry this young man, and will go with him to his country.”
Who acts: Ndere · What happens: say, be, marry, go · To what, where: young man, country · 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 (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 | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 willing | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | cop |
| 7 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 marry | mark |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 willing | xcomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marry | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 country | nmod:poss |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ndere | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Ndere | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | Ndere not said here | this young man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | Chief's country | with Chief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location |
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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