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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 16

When Agbor’s wife heard this, she ran and threw herself at the chief’s feet, and, beating her breasts and tearing her hair, she implored him to spare her husband, but the chief walked away from her.

Who acts: wife, chief · What happens: hear, run, throw, beat, tear, implore · To what, where: this, wife, feet, breasts, hair, chief

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 (wife, 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

advmodnmod:posscasensubjadvclobjpunctnsubjccconjobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccpunctadvclnmod:possobjccconjnmod:possobjpunctnsubjconjobjmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctccdetnsubjconjadvmodcaseoblpunctrootWhenADVAgborPROPN’sPARTwifeNOUNheardVERBthisPRON,PUNCTshePRONranVERBandCCONJthrewVERBherselfPRONatADPtheDETchiefNOUN’sPARTfeetNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTbeatingVERBherPRONbreastsNOUNandCCONJtearingVERBherPRONhairNOUN,PUNCTshePRONimploredVERBhimPRONtoPARTspareVERBherPRONhusbandNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETchiefNOUNwalkedVERBawayADVfromADPherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int5 heardadvmod
2AgborAgborPROPNNumber=Sing4 wifenmod:poss
3’s'sPART_2 Agborcase
4wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing5 heardnsubj
5heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 ranadvcl
6thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem5 heardobj
7,,PUNCT_5 heardpunct
8sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 rannsubj
9ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10andandCCONJ_11 threwcc
11threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 ranconj
12herselfherselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes11 threwobj
13atatADP_17 feetcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 chiefdet
15chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing17 feetnmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 chiefcase
17feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur11 threwobl
18,,PUNCT_21 beatingpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 beatingcc
20,,PUNCT_21 beatingpunct
21beatingbeatVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 ranadvcl
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 breastsnmod:poss
23breastsbreastNOUNNumber=Plur21 beatingobj
24andandCCONJ_25 tearingcc
25tearingtearVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 beatingconj
26herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 hairnmod:poss
27hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing25 tearingobj
28,,PUNCT_30 imploredpunct
29sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 implorednsubj
30imploredimploreVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 ranconj
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 imploredobj
32totoPART_33 sparemark
33sparespareVERBVerbForm=Inf30 imploredxcomp
34herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 husbandnmod:poss
35husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing33 spareobj
36,,PUNCT_40 walkedpunct
37butbutCCONJ_40 walkedcc
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 chiefdet
39chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing40 walkednsubj
40walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 ranconj
41awayawayADV_40 walkedadvmod
42fromfromADP_43 hercase
43hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 walkedobl
44..PUNCT_9 ranpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpastAgbor's wifethisvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2runpastwifevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3throwpastwife not said herewifethe chief's feetvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination
4beatgerundwife not said herewife's breastsvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breast=Theme
5teargerundwife not said herewife's hairvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hair=Theme
6implorepastwifechiefvn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7spareto-infinitivewife not said herewife's husbandvn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent husband=Asset
8walk awaypastthe chieffrom wife; away propertyvn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=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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