Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 75
Every morning when the python and the rest of his people went to the farm, ’Ndere followed later, bringing the foo-foo and soup in calabashes.
Who acts: python, Ndere · What happens: go, follow, bring · To what, where: farm, foo foo
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, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 went | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 python | det |
| 5 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rest | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 python | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rest | nmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 farm | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 farm | det |
| 15 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 18 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 followed | nsubj |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 followed | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bringing | punct |
| 22 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 followed | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 foo | det |
| 24 | foo | foo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foo | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 foo | punct |
| 26 | foo | foo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bringing | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 soup | cc |
| 28 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 foo | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 calabashes | case |
| 30 | calabashes | calabash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 soup | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the python and the rest of python's people | the farm | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | follow | past | Ndere | late property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | Ndere not said here | the foo foo and soup in calabashes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent foo=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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