Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 47
As soon as the play had commenced, Chief Kaku told the python to come to his house, so that ’Ndere was left in the house which had been set apart for the use of her husband and herself.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: commence, tell, come, leave, set apart, use · To what, where: play, python, house, Ndere, husband · 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 (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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 told | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 commenced | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 play | det |
| 5 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 commenced | aux |
| 7 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 told | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
| 9 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 10 | Kaku | Kaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chief | flat |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 python | det |
| 13 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 python | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 left | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 23 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 left | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux:pass |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 told | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obl |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 set | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 set | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 set | aux:pass |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 house | acl:relcl |
| 33 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 32 set | advmod |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 use | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 use | det |
| 36 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 husband | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 husband | nmod:poss |
| 39 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 use | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 herself | cc |
| 41 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 husband | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | past · perfect · passive | the play | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Chief | the python | soon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent python=Recipient | |||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | the python not said here | Chief's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | Ndere | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 5 | set apart | past · perfect · passive | the house | for the use of Ndere's husband Ndere; apart property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for use=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | use | Ndere's husband Ndere | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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