Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 57

This so frightened Agbor Adam that, while the other men were hunting, he withdrew himself quietly from the party, and, having found his wife, told her that the whole of the previous day the bird had called his name and had started to call him again that morning.

Who acts: other men, frightened Agbor Adam, previous day, Adam · What happens: hunt, withdraw, find, tell, call, start · To what, where: Adam, party, wife, bird · 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 (other men, frightened Agbor Adam, previous day, Adam), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Adam	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 frightened	advmod
3	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Adam	amod
4	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Adam	compound
5	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 withdrew	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 Adam	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Adam	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 hunting	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hunting	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hunting	aux
13	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 withdrew	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hunting	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 withdrew	nsubj
16	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 withdrew	obj
18	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	16 withdrew	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 party	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 party	det
21	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 withdrew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 found	aux
26	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 withdrew	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 told	punct
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 withdrew	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 told	iobj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 whole	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 whole	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 told	ccomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 day	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 day	det
37	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 day	amod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 whole	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bird	det
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 called	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 called	aux
42	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 day	acl:relcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 name	nmod:poss
44	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 called	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 started	cc
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 started	aux
47	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 told	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 call	mark
49	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 started	xcomp
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 call	obj
51	again	again	ADV	_	49 call	advmod
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 morning	det
53	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 call	obl:unmarked
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 withdrew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	the other men						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	withdraw	past	frightened Agbor Adam This	Adam		the party		quietly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from party=Initial_Location
3	find	gerund · perfect	frightened Agbor Adam This not said here	Adam's wife					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past	frightened Agbor Adam This not said here		wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	call	past · perfect · passive	the previous day not said here	the bird				Adam's name obj	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme name=Result
6	start	past · perfect	frightened Agbor Adam This not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	call	to-infinitive	frightened Agbor Adam This not said here		Adam		again; morning		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	name		Adam						nom 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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 57

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 57