Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 48
The chief then asked the python to return all the different limbs and other parts of the body which he had borrowed from the different young men of the town as he had promised to do.
Who acts: chief, python · What happens: ask, return, borrow, promise, do · To what, where: python, different limbs, body
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, python), 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 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 python | det |
| 6 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 limbs | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 limbs | det |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 limbs | amod |
| 12 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 return | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 parts | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 parts | amod |
| 15 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 limbs | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 body | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 parts | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 borrowed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 borrowed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 borrowed | aux |
| 22 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 body | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 men | det |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 men | amod |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 men | amod |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 borrowed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 town | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 men | nmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 promised | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 promised | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 promised | aux |
| 34 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 borrowed | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 do | mark |
| 36 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 promised | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the chief | the python | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent python=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | the python not said here | all different limbs and other parts of the body | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | borrow | past · perfect · passive | the body | from the different young men of the town; Chief nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from man=Source | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | Chief | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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