Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 9
But after a few days had passed, Chief Kaku sent privately to Chief Kekong and told him that he had caused the python to be killed, and intended to marry ’Ndere.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: pass, send, tell, cause, kill, intend · To what, where: few days, Chief, python, ’ · 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 (Chief), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sent | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 passed | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sent | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
| 9 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | Kaku | Kaku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chief | flat |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | privately | privately | ADV | _ | 11 sent | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Chief | case |
| 14 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 15 | Kekong | Kekong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Chief | flat |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 caused | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 caused | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 caused | aux |
| 22 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 told | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 python | det |
| 24 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caused | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 killed | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 killed | aux:pass |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 caused | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 intended | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 intended | cc |
| 30 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 caused | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 marry | mark |
| 32 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 intended | xcomp |
| 33 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 32 marry | obj |
| 34 | Ndere | Ndere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ’ | goeswith |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | a few days | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | send | past | Chief | Chief | privately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to chief=Destination | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Chief not said here | Chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | cause | past · perfect | Chief | the python | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition python=Patient | ||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive · passive | Chief not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 6 | intend | participle | Chief not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | ’ Ndere | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent '=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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