Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 8
The friendly python told him that if he did this and returned to Okuni and asked ’Ndere to marry him, it was very likely that she would do so.
Who acts: friendly python, python, Ndere, country · What happens: tell, do, return, ask, marry, be · To what, where: Okuni, this, Ndere, 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 (friendly python, python, Ndere, country), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 python | det |
| 2 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 python | amod |
| 3 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 did | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 did | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | advcl |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 did | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 did | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Okuni | case |
| 14 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ndere | punct |
| 18 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 marry | mark |
| 20 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 marry | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 likely | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 likely | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 likely | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 likely | advmod |
| 26 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 told | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 likely | xcomp |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 do | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the friendly python | Okuni | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | python | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | return | past | python not said here | Okuni | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to okuni=Result | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the friendly python not said here | Ndere | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ndere not said here | python | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | past | country | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do | would | Ndere | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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