Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 2
The chief then sent four of his young men, who hid themselves at the place where ’Ndere brought the food for her husband.
Who acts: chief, young men, Ndere · What happens: send, hide, bring · To what, where: four, men, place, food
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 (chief, young men, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 men | nmod:poss |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 four | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hid | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hid | nsubj |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 men | acl:relcl |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 hid | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hid | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 brought | advmod |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 19 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 food | det |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 husband | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 husband | nmod:poss |
| 25 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the chief | four of Chief's young men | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme | |||
| 2 | hide | past | Chief's young men | men = man | the place | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient at place=Location | |||
| 3 | bring | past | Ndere | the food | for Ndere's husband | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=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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