Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 26
So ’Ndere went down to the stream once more and caught a lot of fish, which she brought back to the house and cooked as before.
Who acts: Ndere · What happens: go down, catch, bring back, cook · To what, where: lot, fish, house
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 stream | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 went | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caught | cc |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fish | case |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lot | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 brought | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fish | acl:relcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 brought | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cooked | cc |
| 26 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 caught | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 before | case |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 cooked | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Ndere | to the stream; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Ndere not said here | a lot of fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring back | past | Ndere | fish | the house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 4 | cook | participle | Ndere not said here | before property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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