Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 23
XXXIII.--HOW ESSAMA STOLE HER FATHER’S GOAT IN THE FATTING-HOUSE, AND HER BROTHER WAS PUNISHED FOR IT.
Who acts: ESSAMA · What happens: steal, punish · To what, where: XXXIII, FATTING HOUSE, BROTHER
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 (ESSAMA), 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 | XXXIII | xxxiii | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 6 STOLE | obl |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 XXXIII | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 STOLE | punct |
| 4 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 STOLE | advmod |
| 5 | ESSAMA | ESSAMA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 STOLE | nsubj |
| 6 | STOLE | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 FATHER | nmod:poss |
| 8 | FATHER | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 GOAT | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’S | 's | PART | _ | 8 FATHER | case |
| 10 | GOAT | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 STOLE | obj |
| 11 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 15 HOUSE | case |
| 12 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 HOUSE | det |
| 13 | FATTING | fatting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 HOUSE | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 FATTING | punct |
| 15 | HOUSE | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 STOLE | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 PUNISHED | punct |
| 17 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 PUNISHED | cc |
| 18 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 BROTHER | nmod:poss |
| 19 | BROTHER | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 PUNISHED | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | WAS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 PUNISHED | aux:pass |
| 21 | PUNISHED | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 STOLE | conj |
| 22 | FOR | for | ADP | _ | 23 IT | case |
| 23 | IT | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 PUNISHED | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 STOLE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | ESSAMA | XXXIII | the FATTING HOUSE | ESSAMA's FATHER's GOAT obj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goat=Theme | ||
| 2 | punish | past · passive | ESSAMA's BROTHER | for house | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for it=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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