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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 51

When midnight came the python got up and went to the chief’s house and returned the different portions of the young men’s bodies which he had borrowed.

Who acts: midnight, python · What happens: come, get up, go, return, borrow · To what, where: house, different portions, bodies

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 (midnight, 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

advmodnsubjadvcldetnsubjadvmodccconjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblccconjdetamodobjcasedetamodnmod:posscasenmodnsubj:passnsubjauxacl:relclpunctrootWhenADVmidnightNOUNcameVERBtheDETpythonNOUNgotVERBupADVandCCONJwentVERBtoADPtheDETchiefNOUN’sPARThouseNOUNandCCONJreturnedVERBtheDETdifferentADJportionsNOUNofADPtheDETyoungADJmenNOUN’sPARTbodiesNOUNwhichPRONhePRONhadAUXborrowedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 cameadvmod
2midnightmidnightNOUNNumber=Sing3 camensubj
3camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 gotadvcl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 pythondet
5pythonpythonNOUNNumber=Sing6 gotnsubj
6gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7upupADV_6 gotadvmod
8andandCCONJ_9 wentcc
9wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 gotconj
10totoADP_14 housecase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 chiefdet
12chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing14 housenmod:poss
13’s'sPART_12 chiefcase
14househouseNOUNNumber=Sing9 wentobl
15andandCCONJ_16 returnedcc
16returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 gotconj
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 portionsdet
18differentdifferentADJDegree=Pos19 portionsamod
19portionsportionNOUNNumber=Plur16 returnedobj
20ofofADP_25 bodiescase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 mendet
22youngyoungADJDegree=Pos23 menamod
23menmanNOUNNumber=Plur25 bodiesnmod:poss
24’s'sPART_23 mencase
25bodiesbodyNOUNNumber=Plur19 portionsnmod
26whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel29 borrowednsubj:pass
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 borrowednsubj
28hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 borrowedaux
29borrowedborrowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 bodiesacl:relcl
30..PUNCT_6 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastmidnightvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2get uppastthe pythonvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3gopastthe python not said herethe chief's housevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4returnpastthe python not said herethe different portions of the young men's bodiesvn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme
5borrowpast · perfect · passivethe young men's bodiespython nsubjvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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