Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 34
This gave Essama a chance to kill and cook the goat, which she ate with her company.
Who acts: This, ESSAMA · What happens: give, kill, cook, eat · To what, where: chance, Essama, 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Essama | Essama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chance | det |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chance | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cook | cc |
| 9 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kill | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goat | det |
| 11 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cook | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ate | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 ate | obj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ate | nsubj |
| 15 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 goat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 company | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 company | nmod:poss |
| 18 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ate | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | This | a chance | Essama | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent essama=Recipient chance=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | This not said here | a chance not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | cook | infinitive | This not said here | the goat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent goat=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | ESSAMA | the goat | with ESSAMA's company | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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