Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 21
From that time the people who disobeyed a chief were made to pay a fine in tombo, goats, or sheet, according to the order.
Who acts: people · What happens: disobey, make, pay, accord · To what, where: chief, people, fine, tombo
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 (people), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 disobeyed | nsubj |
| 7 | disobeyed | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disobeyed | obj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pay | mark |
| 13 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fine | det |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pay | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tombo | case |
| 17 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pay | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 goats | punct |
| 19 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sheet | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 sheet | cc |
| 22 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goats | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 order | punct |
| 24 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 order | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 according | fixed |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 order | det |
| 27 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goats | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disobey | past | the people | a chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the people | time | goats or sheet and the order obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | the people not said here | a fine | tombo | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset | |||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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