Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 77

Then the woman began to abuse her husband, saying, “You have been the cause of all this running and trouble,” but Agbor told her that when he eat the fish and broke the hunting law he never thought he would be found out.

Who acts: woman, You, Agbor · What happens: begin, abuse, say, be, tell, eat · To what, where: husband, cause, wife, fish, hunting law, AGBOR · 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 (woman, You, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 abuse	mark
6	abuse	abuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 abuse	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cause	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 cause	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 cause	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 cause	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 cause	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cause	det
17	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 running	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 running	det:predet
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 running	det
21	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cause	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 trouble	cc
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 running	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
27	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 eat	mark
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 eat	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 eat	nsubj
33	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 told	ccomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fish	det
35	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eat	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 broke	cc
37	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 eat	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 law	det
39	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 law	compound
40	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 broke	obj
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 thought	nsubj
42	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 thought	advmod
43	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 law	acl:relcl
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 found	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 found	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 found	aux:pass
47	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 thought	ccomp
48	out	out	ADP	_	47 found	compound:prt
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the woman			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	abuse	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	wife's husband				vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the woman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present · perfect	You	the cause			of all running and trouble	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	Agbor		wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	eat	present	AGBOR	the fish				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
7	break	past	AGBOR not said here	the hunting law				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient
8	not think speech: other	past	AGBOR	the hunting law not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent law=Attribute clause=Theme
9	find out	would · passive		AGBOR				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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 77

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 77