Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 25

When he woke up and found that he was quite well, he sent ’Ndere out again with her basket to catch more of the fish, as the soup was so sweet.

Who acts: Chief, soup · What happens: wake up, find, be, send, catch · To what, where: more · 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, soup), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 woke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 woke	nsubj
3	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sent	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 woke	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 woke	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 well	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 well	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 well	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 well	advmod
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 found	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woke	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sent	nsubj
14	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 out	punct
16	Ndere	ndere	ADV	_	17 out	advmod
17	out	out	ADV	_	14 sent	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 out	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 basket	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 basket	nmod:poss
21	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sent	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 catch	mark
23	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sent	advcl
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 catch	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 fish	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fish	det
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 more	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sweet	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 sweet	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 soup	det
31	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sweet	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sweet	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 sweet	advmod
34	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sent	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	Chief				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	find	past	Chief not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Chief			well property	tree rules
4	send	past	Chief		again	with Ndere's basket; out property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	catch	to-infinitive	Chief not said here	more of the fish			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
6	is	past	the soup			sweet property	tree rules

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 25