Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 11
When Chief Alobi heard this he rose up in anger, and stamped his foot on the ground, saying, “Surely Agbor Adam shall die this day.
Who acts: Chief, Agbor · What happens: hear, rise up, stamp, say, die · To what, where: this, anger, foot, ground · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | Alobi | Alobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chief | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 rose | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 anger | case |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stamped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stamped | cc |
| 13 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stamped | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stamped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saying | punct |
| 20 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stamped | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
| 23 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 24 Agbor | advmod |
| 24 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 die | nsubj |
| 25 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Agbor | flat |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 die | aux |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 die | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Chief | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise up | past | chief | anger | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in anger=Location | ||||
| 3 | stamp | past | chief not said here | chief's foot | the ground | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | chief not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | shall | Agbor | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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