Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 34
In the dry season, many years ago, Chief Akum Alobi of Okuni ordered all his people to go out hunting.
Who acts: Akum Alobi · What happens: order, go out, hunt · To what, where: people
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 (Akum Alobi), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 season | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 season | det |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 season | amod |
| 4 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ordered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 years | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 season | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 years | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 season | punct |
| 10 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Akum | compound |
| 11 | Akum | Akum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Alobi | compound |
| 12 | Alobi | Alobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ordered | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Okuni | case |
| 14 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Alobi | nmod |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 people | det:predet |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 people | nmod:poss |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ordered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 go | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Akum Alobi of Okuni | Okuni's people | season | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Akum Alobi of Okuni not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | Akum Alobi of Okuni not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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