Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 80
He then said, “My good woman, you have done well, you hear my voice properly,” and having given her the empty calabashes, ’Ndere returned to her home.
Who acts: python, you, Ndere · What happens: say, do, hear, give, return · To what, where: voice, Ndere · 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, you, 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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 woman | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 done | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | obj |
| 19 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 16 hear | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 given | cc |
| 23 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 given | aux |
| 24 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 given | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 calabashes | det |
| 27 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 calabashes | amod |
| 28 | calabashes | calabash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 given | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ’ | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 24 given | obj |
| 31 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 returned | nsubj |
| 32 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ’ | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 home | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 home | nmod:poss |
| 35 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 returned | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | python | then | My good woman ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | present | you | my voice | properly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | give | gerund · perfect | python not said here | Ndere | the empty calabashes obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | return | past | Ndere | to Ndere's home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
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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