Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 28
Both the goat and Essama grew up together, until the time arrived for the girl to be circumcised and kept in the fatting-house.
Who acts: goat, time · What happens: grow up, arrive, circumcise, keep · To what, where: fatting house
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 (goat, time), 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 6 grew | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goat | det |
| 3 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Essama | cc |
| 5 | Essama | Essama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goat | conj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grew | compound:prt |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 grew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrived | punct |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 arrived | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 girl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrived | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 circumcised | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 circumcised | aux:pass |
| 19 | circumcised | circumcise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 arrived | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kept | cc |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 circumcised | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 24 | fatting | fatting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 fatting | punct |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | the goat and Essama | together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the time | for the girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | circumcise | to-infinitive · passive | the time not said here | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient» | |||||
| 4 | keep | participle | the time not said here | the fatting house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
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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