Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 42

So Iza Kakem, having looked over all the animals, selected a monkey, and took it to the bush shelter where she was sleeping, and cooked and eat it.

Who acts: Iza · What happens: look, select, take, sleep, cook, eat · To what, where: Iza, monkey, bush shelter

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 (Iza), 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	_	12 selected	advmod
2	Iza	Iza	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 selected	nsubj
3	Kakem	Kakem	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Iza	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct
5	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 looked	aux
6	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Iza	acl
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 animals	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 animals	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 animals	det
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Iza	punct
12	selected	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 monkey	det
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 selected	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 selected	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 shelter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shelter	det
21	bush	bush	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shelter	amod
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 sleeping	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sleeping	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sleeping	aux
26	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 shelter	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cooked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cooked	cc
29	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 took	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 eat	cc
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 cooked	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 eat	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 selected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund · perfect		Iza not said here		over all animals	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over animal=Theme
2	select	past	Iza	a monkey			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme
3	take	past	Iza not said here	monkey	the bush shelter		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shelter=Destination
4	sleep	past · progressive	Iza				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cook	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	eat	infinitive		monkey			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 42