Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 9
The next day the python set off to a distant country, where he was unknown, and went to a chief called Kaku.
Who acts: python · What happens: set off, be, go, call · To what, where: distant country, 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 (python), 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 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 python | det |
| 5 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 10 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 unknown | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 unknown | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 unknown | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 unknown | cop |
| 16 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 country | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 chief | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chief | det |
| 22 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 chief | acl |
| 24 | Kaku | Kaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | the python | a distant country | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | python | unknown property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the python not said here | a chief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a chief not said here | Kaku xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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