Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 12
For, first of all, he disobeyed my hunting law, and then he deserted the hunting party.
Who acts: Agbor · What happens: disobey, desert · To what, where: hunting law, hunting party
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 (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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 disobeyed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 first | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 disobeyed | nsubj |
| 8 | disobeyed | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 law | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 law | compound |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disobeyed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deserted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 deserted | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 deserted | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 deserted | nsubj |
| 16 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disobeyed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 party | det |
| 18 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 party | compound |
| 19 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deserted | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disobeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey | past | Agbor | my hunting law | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desert | past | Agbor | the hunting party | then | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme party=Source |
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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