Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 56
He also said that his son was going to return to Okuni the following day, and that she would have to accompany her husband. ’
Who acts: python, son, Ndere · What happens: say, go, return, follow, have, accompany · To what, where: Okuni, husband · 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 (python, son, 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 return | mark |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Okuni | case |
| 12 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 accompany | mark |
| 23 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 husband | nmod:poss |
| 25 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accompany | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | python | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | python's son | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | python's son not said here | Okuni | day | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to okuni=Result | |||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | have | would | Ndere | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | accompany | to-infinitive | Ndere not said here | Ndere's husband | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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