Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 45
The chief then had a plentiful supply of food brought, which was given to the python and his wife, and a room was appointed for their use.
Who acts: chief, rods · What happens: have, bring, give, appoint, use · To what, where: plentiful supply, food, 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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 supply | det |
| 6 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 supply | amod |
| 7 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 supply | nmod |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 food | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 given | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 food | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 python | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 python | det |
| 17 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wife | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 python | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 appointed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 appointed | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 appointed | aux:pass |
| 26 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 had | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 use | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 use | nmod:poss |
| 29 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appointed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the chief | a plentiful supply of food | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supply=Patient | |||
| 2 | bring | participle | food not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | food | the python and Chief's wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to python=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | appoint | past · passive | a room | for rods's use | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | use | rods = rod | nom use «act transitive»: 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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