Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 27

The chief was very fond of both his children, and when Essama grew up he bought a male goat and had it cut to make it grow bigger, so that when his daughter was circumcised and kept in the fatting-house he would be able to give her the goat to eat.

Who acts: chief, Essama, plenty · What happens: be, grow up, buy, have, cut, make · To what, where: male goat, plenty, daughter, fatting house, goat

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 (chief, Essama, plenty), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 fond	advmod
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	both	both	CCONJ	_	9 children	cc:preconj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bought	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 grew	advmod
13	Essama	Essama	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 grew	nsubj
14	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bought	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 grew	compound:prt
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bought	nsubj
17	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 goat	det
19	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 goat	amod
20	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bought	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bought	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	obj
24	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 had	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cut	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	obj
28	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 make	xcomp
29	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 grow	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 circumcised	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 circumcised	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 circumcised	advmod
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 daughter	nmod:poss
35	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 circumcised	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 circumcised	aux:pass
37	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bought	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 kept	cc
39	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 circumcised	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 house	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 house	det
42	fatting	fatting	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 house	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 fatting	punct
44	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 kept	obl
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 able	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 able	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 able	cop
48	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 house	acl:relcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 give	mark
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 able	xcomp
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 give	iobj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 goat	det
53	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	obj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 eat	mark
55	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 goat	acl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the chief				of chief's children; fond property	tree rules
2	grow up	past	Essama					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buy	past	chief	a male goat				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme
4	have	past	chief not said here	plenty				tree rules
5	cut	participle	plenty not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	make	to-infinitive	plenty not said here	plenty				tree rules
7	grow	infinitive	plenty not said here				big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	circumcise	past · passive		chief's daughter				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
9	keep	participle				the fatting house		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
10	is	would	chief	the fatting house not said here			able property	tree rules
11	give	to-infinitive	chief not said here	the goat	daughter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient goat=Theme
12	eat	to-infinitive	chief not said here	the goat not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 27

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 27