Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 52
He then returned to ’Ndere in his natural form of a python, but when she saw him she denied that he was her husband.
Who acts: python, Ndere · What happens: return, ', see, deny, be, form · To what, where: Ndere, natural form, python, husband
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 (python, Ndere), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ’ | case |
| 5 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 returned | xcomp |
| 6 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ’ | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 form | nmod:poss |
| 9 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 form | amod |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’ | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 python | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 python | det |
| 13 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 denied | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 denied | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 denied | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 denied | nsubj |
| 21 | denied | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 husband | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 husband | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 husband | cop |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 husband | nmod:poss |
| 26 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 denied | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | python | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ' | infinitive | python not said here | Ndere | python's natural form of a python | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | past | Ndere | python | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | deny | past | Ndere | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | python | Ndere's husband | Ndere nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | form | python | a python | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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