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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 51

The men then went out hunting again, but all day long Aictor followed them, calling out Agbor Adam’s name, and saying he had broken the law.

Who acts: men, day, AGBOR · What happens: go out, hunt, follow, call out, say, break · To what, where: men, name, law · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, day, AGBOR), 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

detnsubjadvmodcompound:prtxcompadvmodpunctccdetnsubjamodapposconjobjpunctadvclcompound:prtnmod:possflatcaseobjpunctccadvclnsubjauxccompdetobjpunctrootTheDETmenNOUNthenADVwentVERBoutADPhuntingVERBagainADV,PUNCTbutCCONJallDETdayNOUNlongADJAictorPROPNfollowedVERBthemPRON,PUNCTcallingVERBoutADPAgborPROPNAdamPROPN’sPARTnameNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsayingVERBhePRONhadAUXbrokenVERBtheDETlawNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 mendet
2menmanNOUNNumber=Plur4 wentnsubj
3thenthenADVPronType=Dem4 wentadvmod
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5outoutADP_4 wentcompound:prt
6huntinghuntVERBVerbForm=Ger4 wentxcomp
7againagainADV_6 huntingadvmod
8,,PUNCT_14 followedpunct
9butbutCCONJ_14 followedcc
10allallDETPronType=Tot11 daydet
11daydayNOUNNumber=Sing14 followednsubj
12longlongADJDegree=Pos13 Aictoramod
13AictorAictorPROPNNumber=Sing11 dayappos
14followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
15themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 followedobj
16,,PUNCT_17 callingpunct
17callingcallVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 followedadvcl
18outoutADP_17 callingcompound:prt
19AgborAgborPROPNNumber=Sing22 namenmod:poss
20AdamAdamPROPNNumber=Sing19 Agborflat
21’s'sPART_19 Agborcase
22namenameNOUNNumber=Sing17 callingobj
23,,PUNCT_25 sayingpunct
24andandCCONJ_25 sayingcc
25sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 wentadvcl
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 brokennsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 brokenaux
28brokenbreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 sayingccomp
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 lawdet
30lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing28 brokenobj
31..PUNCT_4 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go outpastthe menthentree rules
2huntgerundthe men not said hereagainvn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3followpastall daymen = manvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4call out speech: assertgerundall day not said hereAgbor's namevn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
5say speech: assertgerundthe men not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6breakpast · perfectAGBORthe lawvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient
7nameAgbornom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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