Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 20
To this Chief Aboli agreed, and thus Agbor Adam’s life was saved, so he climbed down the tree again and paid the fine.
Who acts: Aboli, Agbor · What happens: agree, save, climb down, pay · To what, where: life, tree, fine
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 (Aboli, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Chief | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Chief | det |
| 3 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | obl |
| 4 | Aboli | Aboli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saved | cc |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 saved | advmod |
| 9 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Agbor | flat |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Agbor | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saved | aux:pass |
| 14 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 agreed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 climbed | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 climbed | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 climbed | nsubj |
| 18 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | parataxis |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 climbed | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 climbed | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 climbed | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 paid | cc |
| 24 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 climbed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fine | det |
| 26 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 paid | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Aboli | to this Chief | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | save | past · passive | Agbor's life | thus property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | climb down | past | Agbor | the tree | again | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 4 | pay | past | Agbor not said here | the fine | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset |
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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