Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 1

This was done for two days, and on the third day ’Ndere said she would like to go to the farm to see the people working, but the python would not let her, so she sent a word to Chief Kaku that the python went to the farm every day.

Who acts: Ndere, people, python · What happens: do, say, like, go, see, work · To what, where: This, farm, people, Ndere, word, 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ndere, people, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 done	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux:pass
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 done	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
14	Ndere	Ndere	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	parataxis
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 farm	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 farm	det
23	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 people	det
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
28	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 people	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 let	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 python	det
32	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 let	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 let	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 let	advmod
35	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	parataxis
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 let	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sent	punct
38	so	so	ADV	_	40 sent	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sent	nsubj
40	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	parataxis
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 word	det
42	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sent	obj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 Chief	case
44	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 sent	obl
45	Kaku	Kaku	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Chief	flat
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 went	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 python	det
48	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 went	nsubj
49	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 sent	conj
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 farm	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 farm	det
52	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 went	obl
53	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	54 day	det
54	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 went	obl:unmarked
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past · passive		This			day	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Ndere				day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	would	Ndere					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ndere not said here			the farm		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location
5	see	to-infinitive	Ndere not said here	the people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
6	work	gerund	the people not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not let	would	the python	Ndere				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	send	past	python	a word	Chief			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to chief=Destination
9	go	past	the python			the farm	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 1

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 1