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

He then told the elephant that he was to get hold of Agbor Adam, but he did not wish him to be killed, as he only wanted to find out why the bird Aictor had been calling his name and why he had left the hunting party.

Who acts: chief, bird · What happens: tell, be, not wish, kill, want, find out · To what, where: elephant, name, hunting party, Agbor · Speech: someone speaks here

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, bird), 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

nsubjadvmoddetobjmarknsubjcopmarkccompobjcasenmodflatpunctccnsubjauxadvmodccompiobjmarkaux:passccomppunctmarknsubjadvmodconjmarkxcompcompound:prtadvmoddetnsubjapposauxauxadvclnmod:possobjccadvmodnsubjauxconjdetcompoundobjpunctrootHePRONthenADVtoldVERBtheDETelephantNOUNthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXtoPARTgetVERBholdNOUNofADPAgborPROPNAdamPROPN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONdidAUXnotPARTwishVERBhimPRONtoPARTbeAUXkilledVERB,PUNCTasSCONJhePRONonlyADVwantedVERBtoPARTfindVERBoutADPwhyADVtheDETbirdNOUNAictorPROPNhadAUXbeenAUXcallingVERBhisPRONnameNOUNandCCONJwhyADVhePRONhadAUXleftVERBtheDEThuntingNOUNpartyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 toldnsubj
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem3 toldadvmod
3toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 elephantdet
5elephantelephantNOUNNumber=Sing3 toldobj
6thatthatSCONJ_10 getmark
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 getnsubj
8wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 getcop
9totoPART_10 getmark
10getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf3 toldccomp
11holdholdNOUNNumber=Sing10 getobj
12ofofADP_13 Agborcase
13AgborAgborPROPNNumber=Sing11 holdnmod
14AdamAdamPROPNNumber=Sing13 Agborflat
15,,PUNCT_20 wishpunct
16butbutCCONJ_20 wishcc
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 wishnsubj
18diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 wishaux
19notnotPARTPolarity=Neg20 wishadvmod
20wishwishVERBVerbForm=Inf3 toldccomp
21himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 wishiobj
22totoPART_24 killedmark
23bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf24 killedaux:pass
24killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 wishccomp
25,,PUNCT_29 wantedpunct
26asasSCONJ_29 wantedmark
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 wantednsubj
28onlyonlyADV_29 wantedadvmod
29wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 toldconj
30totoPART_31 findmark
31findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf29 wantedxcomp
32outoutADP_31 findcompound:prt
33whywhyADVPronType=Int39 callingadvmod
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 birddet
35birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing39 callingnsubj
36AictorAictorPROPNNumber=Sing35 birdappos
37hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin39 callingaux
38beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part39 callingaux
39callingcallVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part31 findadvcl
40hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 namenmod:poss
41namenameNOUNNumber=Sing39 callingobj
42andandCCONJ_46 leftcc
43whywhyADVPronType=Int46 leftadvmod
44hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 leftnsubj
45hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin46 leftaux
46leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part39 callingconj
47thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 partydet
48huntinghuntingNOUNNumber=Sing49 partycompound
49partypartyNOUNNumber=Sing46 leftobj
50..PUNCT_3 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastchiefthe elephantthenvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient clause=Topic
2is not said to happenpastchiefhold of Agbor obj; get propertytree rules
3not wishpast · do-supportchiefelephanttree rules
4kill not said to happento-infinitive · passivevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5wantpastchiefvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6find out not said to happento-infinitivechief not said herevn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7callpast · perfect · progressivethe birdchief's namevn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
8leavepast · perfectchiefthe hunting partyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme
9holdAgbornom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
10namechiefnom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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