Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 73
Ndere, who hated the python, agreed to help, and said she would be glad to marry anyone who would get rid of the python; so the young men returned and told the chief what she had said.
Who acts: Ndere, young men · What happens: hate, agree, help, say, be, marry · To what, where: python, anyone, chief · 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 (Ndere, young men), 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 | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hated | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 4 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 python | det |
| 6 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hated | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 agreed | punct |
| 8 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 python | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 agreed | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hated | conj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 glad | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 glad | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 glad | cop |
| 17 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 glad | xcomp |
| 20 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 marry | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 get | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 python | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 python | det |
| 27 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rid | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 returned | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 returned | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 men | det |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 men | amod |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 returned | nsubj |
| 33 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hated | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 told | cc |
| 35 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 returned | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 chief | det |
| 37 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 told | iobj |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 said | obj |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 said | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 said | aux |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 told | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | Ndere | the python | who nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer python=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | the python not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Ndere not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | would | Ndere | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | marry | to-infinitive | Ndere not said here | anyone | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 7 | get | would | who nsubj; rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | return | past | the young men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | tell speech: assert | past | the young men not said here | the chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 10 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Ndere | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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