Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 57
Ndere was not at all pleased to see her husband going about on his stomach, and refused to sit near him all the day.
Who acts: Ndere, husband · What happens: not be, see, go about, refuse, not sit · To what, where: husband, stomach
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 (Ndere, husband), 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 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 pleased | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pleased | det |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | xcomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 husband | acl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 stomach | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 refused | cc |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sit | mark |
| 20 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 refused | xcomp |
| 21 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sit | obl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 day | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sit | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Ndere | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Ndere not said here | Ndere's husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go about | gerund | Ndere's husband not said here | husband's stomach | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | refuse | past | Ndere not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not sit | to-infinitive | Ndere not said here | day | near husband | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location |
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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