Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 43

She was then circumcised and kept in a room for three days; after that she was able to walk, so ’Ndere told the python that she was then willing to go with him to his country, and the following morning they set off from the town, walking very slowly.

Who acts: daughter, Ndere, rods · What happens: circumcise, keep, be, walk, tell, go · To what, where: daughter, room, python, country, town · 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 (daughter, Ndere, rods), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 circumcised	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 circumcised	aux:pass
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 circumcised	advmod
4	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
6	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 circumcised	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kept	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 able	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 able	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 able	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 able	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 circumcised	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 walk	mark
20	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 told	advmod
23	’	'	SCONJ	_	25 told	mark
24	Ndere	Ndere	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 circumcised	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 python	det
27	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 willing	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 willing	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 willing	cop
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 willing	advmod
32	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 told	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 willing	xcomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 go	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 country	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 country	nmod:poss
39	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 set	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 set	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 morning	det
43	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 morning	amod
44	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 set	obl:unmarked
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 set	nsubj
46	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 circumcised	parataxis
47	off	off	ADP	_	46 set	compound:prt
48	from	from	ADP	_	50 town	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 town	det
50	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 set	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 walking	punct
52	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 set	conj
53	very	very	ADV	_	54 slowly	advmod
54	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	52 walking	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 circumcised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	circumcise	past · passive		daughter		then		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	keep	participle			a room	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
3	is	past	daughter				able property	tree rules
4	walk	to-infinitive	daughter not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Ndere	the python				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent python=Recipient
6	is	past	daughter			then	willing property	tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	daughter not said here		python's country		with python	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
8	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	set off	past	rods = rod		the town	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location
10	walk	gerund	rods = rod not said here				slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 43

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 43