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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 37

The hunting law was that, during the hunting time, the men might eat the meat of the animals they killed, but they were not allowed to eat any fish, and the women might eat fish only, and not eat any meat from animals killed hunting.

Who acts: hunting law, men, women, animals · What happens: be, kill, not allow, eat, not eat · To what, where: animals, men, fish, meat, hunting

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 (hunting law, men, women, animals), 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

detcompoundnsubjcopmarkpunctcasedetcompoundoblpunctdetnsubjauxdetobjcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclpunctccnsubj:passaux:passadvmodconjmarkxcompdetobjpunctccdetnsubjauxconjobjadvmodpunctccadvmodconjdetobjcaseoblaclobjpunctrootTheDEThuntingNOUNlawNOUNwasAUXthatSCONJ,PUNCTduringADPtheDEThuntingNOUNtimeNOUN,PUNCTtheDETmenNOUNmightAUXeatVERBtheDETmeatNOUNofADPtheDETanimalsNOUNtheyPRONkilledVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJtheyPRONwereAUXnotPARTallowedVERBtoPARTeatVERBanyDETfishNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETwomenNOUNmightAUXeatVERBfishNOUNonlyADV,PUNCTandCCONJnotPARTeatVERBanyDETmeatNOUNfromADPanimalsNOUNkilledVERBhuntingNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 lawdet
2huntinghuntingNOUNNumber=Sing3 lawcompound
3lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing15 eatnsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 eatcop
5thatthatSCONJ_15 eatmark
6,,PUNCT_5 thatpunct
7duringduringADP_10 timecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 timedet
9huntinghuntingNOUNNumber=Sing10 timecompound
10timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing15 eatobl
11,,PUNCT_10 timepunct
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 mendet
13menmanNOUNNumber=Plur15 eatnsubj
14mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin15 eataux
15eateatVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 meatdet
17meatmeatNOUNNumber=Sing15 eatobj
18ofofADP_20 animalscase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 animalsdet
20animalsanimalNOUNNumber=Plur17 meatnmod
21theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 killednsubj
22killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 animalsacl:relcl
23,,PUNCT_28 allowedpunct
24butbutCCONJ_28 allowedcc
25theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 allowednsubj:pass
26werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 allowedaux:pass
27notnotPARTPolarity=Neg28 allowedadvmod
28allowedallowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 eatconj
29totoPART_30 eatmark
30eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf28 allowedxcomp
31anyanyDETPronType=Ind32 fishdet
32fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing30 eatobj
33,,PUNCT_38 eatpunct
34andandCCONJ_38 eatcc
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 womendet
36womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur38 eatnsubj
37mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin38 eataux
38eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf15 eatconj
39fishfishNOUNNumber=Plur38 eatobj
40onlyonlyADV_38 eatadvmod
41,,PUNCT_44 eatpunct
42andandCCONJ_44 eatcc
43notnotPARTPolarity=Neg44 eatadvmod
44eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf15 eatconj
45anyanyDETPronType=Ind46 meatdet
46meatmeatNOUNNumber=Sing44 eatobj
47fromfromADP_48 animalscase
48animalsanimalNOUNNumber=Plur44 eatobl
49killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass48 animalsacl
50huntinghuntingNOUNNumber=Sing49 killedobj
51..PUNCT_15 eatpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ismight · pastthe hunting lawtimethe men nsubj; the meat of the animals obj; eat propertytree rules
2killpastmen = manthe animals not said herevn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
3not allowpast · passivemen = manvn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4eat not said to happento-infinitivemen = man not said hereany fishvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
5eatmightthe womenfishvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
6not eatinfinitivethe hunting law not said hereany meatfrom animalsvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
7killparticipleanimals not said herehuntingvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Theme

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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