Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 69
He therefore decided to wait until the dry season came round, when the python would go to his farm, and might be killed without causing any trouble.
Who acts: Chief, dry season, python · What happens: decide, wait, come round, go, kill, cause · To what, where: farm, trouble
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 (Chief, dry season, 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
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 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 decided | advmod |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wait | mark |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 season | det |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 season | amod |
| 9 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 go | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 python | det |
| 15 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wait | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 farm | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 farm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 killed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 killed | cc |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 killed | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 killed | aux:pass |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 decided | conj |
| 26 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 27 causing | mark |
| 27 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 killed | advcl |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 trouble | det |
| 29 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 causing | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Chief | therefore property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come round | past | the dry season | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | would | the python | Chief's farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | kill | might · passive | Chief not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 6 | cause | gerund | Chief not said here | any trouble | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=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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