Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 79
When he had eaten all the food he returned to the place where he had left his wife, and found her waiting for him.
Who acts: python, Ndere · What happens: eat, return, leave, find, wait · To what, where: food, place, wife, Ndere
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 food | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 food | det |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eaten | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 food | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 left | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 left | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | aux |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | obj |
| 23 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 found | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 waiting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | python | all food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | past | python | all food not said here | the place | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | python | python's wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | python not said here | Ndere | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | Ndere not said here | for python | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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