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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 54

As soon as it was light ’Ndere went with the python to the chief’s house, and asked him whether the python was his son whom she had married.

Who acts: light ’, python · What happens: go, ask, be, marry · To what, where: house, python, son · 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 (light ’, 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

advmodadvmodmarknsubjcopamodnsubjnsubjcasedetoblcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccconjiobjmarkdetnsubjcopnmod:possccompnsubj:passnsubj:passauxacl:relclpunctrootAsADVsoonADVasSCONJitPRONwasAUXlightADJ’XNderePROPNwentVERBwithADPtheDETpythonNOUNtoADPtheDETchiefNOUN’sPARThouseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaskedVERBhimPRONwhetherSCONJtheDETpythonNOUNwasAUXhisPRONsonNOUNwhomPRONshePRONhadAUXmarriedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos9 wentadvmod
3asasSCONJ_7 ’mark
4ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 ’nsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 ’cop
6lightlightADJDegree=Pos7 ’amod
7’'X_9 wentnsubj
8NdereNderePROPNNumber=Sing9 wentnsubj
9wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10withwithADP_12 pythoncase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 pythondet
12pythonpythonNOUNNumber=Sing9 wentobl
13totoADP_17 housecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 chiefdet
15chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing17 housenmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 chiefcase
17househouseNOUNNumber=Sing9 wentobl
18,,PUNCT_20 askedpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 askedcc
20askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 wentconj
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 askediobj
22whetherwhetherSCONJ_27 sonmark
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 pythondet
24pythonpythonNOUNNumber=Sing27 sonnsubj
25wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 soncop
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 sonnmod:poss
27sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing20 askedccomp
28whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel31 marriednsubj:pass
29sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 marriednsubj:pass
30hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 marriedaux
31marriedmarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass27 sonacl:relcl
32..PUNCT_9 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastlight ’ remainderthe chief's housewith the python; Ndere nsubj; soon propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2ask speech: askpastlight ’ remainder not said herepythonvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3is apastthe pythonpython's sontree rules
4marrypast · perfect · passivepython's sonNdere nsubj:passvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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