Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 3
When she had shaken the string of snail shells, the python soon appeared, and the men who were ready sprang up, whereupon ’Ndere ran away, in order to deceive her husband.
Who acts: Ndere, python, men · What happens: shake, appear, be, spring up, run away, deceive · To what, where: string, husband
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, python, men), 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 | 4 shaken | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shaken | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shaken | aux |
| 4 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 string | det |
| 6 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shaken | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shells | case |
| 8 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shells | compound |
| 9 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 string | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 python | det |
| 12 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 appeared | advmod |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shaken | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ran | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ran | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ready | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ready | cop |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | acl:relcl |
| 22 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ready | xcomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 sprang | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ran | punct |
| 25 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 ran | advmod |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 ran | punct |
| 27 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 ran | nsubj |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 appeared | advcl |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 ran | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 deceive | punct |
| 31 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 34 deceive | mark |
| 32 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 in | fixed |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 deceive | mark |
| 34 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 ran | conj |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 husband | nmod:poss |
| 36 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 deceive | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past · perfect | Ndere | the string of snail shells | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent string=Patient | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the python | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the men | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spring up | participle | the men not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run away | past | the men | Ndere nsubj; away, whereupon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | deceive | to-infinitive | the men not said here | Ndere's husband | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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