Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 42
The chief then handed his daughter to the python, and after she had been rubbed all over with camwood and oil she was taken to the python’s room.
Who acts: chief · What happens: hand, rub, take · To what, where: daughter, python, room
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), 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 | 4 handed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 handed | advmod |
| 4 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 python | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 python | det |
| 9 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rubbed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rubbed | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 rubbed | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rubbed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rubbed | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 16 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 handed | conj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 over | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 rubbed | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 camwood | case |
| 20 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rubbed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 oil | cc |
| 22 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 camwood | conj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 taken | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 taken | aux:pass |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 camwood | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 room | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 python | det |
| 28 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 room | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 python | case |
| 30 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taken | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | the chief | Chief's daughter | the python | then | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to python=Destination | ||
| 2 | rub | past · perfect · passive | daughter | with camwood and oil; over property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with camwood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past · passive | daughter | the python's room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to room=Destination |
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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