Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 2
When the morning came, the chief sent for the animals to come in, and, as the elephant was the biggest and strongest, he chose him.
Who acts: morning, chief, elephant · What happens: come, send, come in, be, choose · To what, where: elephant
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 (morning, chief, elephant), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 animals | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 animals | det |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sent | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 biggest | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 biggest | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 biggest | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 biggest | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 elephant | det |
| 20 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 biggest | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 biggest | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 biggest | det |
| 23 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 sent | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 strongest | cc |
| 25 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 biggest | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 chose | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 chose | nsubj |
| 28 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 chose | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | past | the chief | for the animals | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come in | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the elephant | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the elephant not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | choose | past | chief | elephant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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