Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 71

He sent messages by these men to ’Ndere, telling her to do everything her husband told her to do, and that when the time arrived for making the new farms he would have the python killed, and she could then come and marry him.

Who acts: python, telling, that, Ndere · What happens: send, ', tell, do, arrive, make · To what, where: messages, Ndere, everything, new farms, python · 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, telling, that, 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	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 men	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 men	det
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 ’	case
8	’	'	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	advcl
9	Ndere	Ndere	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ’	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
11	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 told	csubj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 telling	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 telling	xcomp
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 do	obj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 arrived	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 arrived	cc
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 arrived	nsubj
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 arrived	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 arrived	nsubj
28	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	parataxis
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 making	mark
30	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 arrived	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 farms	det
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 farms	amod
33	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 making	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 have	aux
36	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 making	parataxis
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 python	det
38	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 killed	nsubj
39	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 have	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 come	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 come	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 come	aux
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 come	advmod
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 arrived	conj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 marry	cc
47	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 come	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 marry	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	python	messages			by this men	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
2	'	infinitive	python not said here	Ndere				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund			Ndere			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive		everything			Ndere's husband obj	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	telling		Ndere			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	telling not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	arrive	past	that					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	make	gerund	that not said here	the new farms				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset farm=Product
9	have	would	python					tree rules
10	kill	past	the python					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	come	could	Ndere			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	marry	infinitive	Ndere not said here	python				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 71

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 71