Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 50
The chief agreed to allow the python until midnight, and the python then went off to join his wife in their house.
Who acts: chief, python · What happens: agree, allow, go off, join · To what, where: python, wife, house
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 | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 allow | mark |
| 5 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 python | det |
| 7 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allow | obj |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 midnight | case |
| 9 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 python | det |
| 13 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 join | mark |
| 18 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | xcomp |
| 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 | 18 join | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 join | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the chief | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | the python | midnight | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent python=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | go off | past | the python | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | join | to-infinitive | the python not said here | python's wife | things's house | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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