Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 21
The chief then agreed, and said, “I will eat the fish with you, and if we die we shall be treated as husband and wife in the spirit.”
Who acts: chief, we · What happens: agree, say, eat, die, treat · To what, where: fish, we, spirit · 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 (chief, we), 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 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 treated | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 treated | cc |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 die | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 die | nsubj |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 treated | advcl |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 treated | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 treated | aux:pass |
| 25 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 agreed | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 husband | case |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 treated | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wife | cc |
| 29 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 husband | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 spirit | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 spirit | det |
| 32 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 treated | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the chief | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the chief not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | future | the chief = chief | the fish | with you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | |||
| 4 | die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | treat in a quote | shall · passive | we | the spirit | as husband and wife | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as husband=Attribute |
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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