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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 35

Essama reserved a leg, some of the soup, and a yam, which she placed in a pot and hung over the fire to keep warm for Ode when he returned from the river.

Who acts: Essama, yam, BROTHER · What happens: reserve, place, hang, keep, return · To what, where: leg, pot, fire, river

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, yam, BROTHER), 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

nsubjdetobjpunctnsubjcasedetconjpunctccdetoblpunctnsubjnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblccconjcasedetoblmarkadvclxcompcaseobladvmodnsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctrootEssamaPROPNreservedVERBaDETlegNOUN,PUNCTsomeDETofADPtheDETsoupNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaDETyamNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONshePRONplacedVERBinADPaDETpotNOUNandCCONJhungVERBoverADPtheDETfireNOUNtoPARTkeepVERBwarmADJforADPOdePROPNwhenADVhePRONreturnedVERBfromADPtheDETriverNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EssamaEssamaPROPNNumber=Sing2 reservednsubj
2reservedreserveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 legdet
4leglegNOUNNumber=Sing2 reservedobj
5,,PUNCT_9 souppunct
6somesomeDETPronType=Ind9 soupnsubj
7ofofADP_9 soupcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 soupdet
9soupsoupNOUNNumber=Sing4 legconj
10,,PUNCT_13 yampunct
11andandCCONJ_13 yamcc
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 yamdet
13yamyamNOUNNumber=Sing2 reservedobl
14,,PUNCT_17 placedpunct
15whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel17 placednsubj
16sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 placednsubj
17placedplaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 yamacl:relcl
18ininADP_20 potcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 potdet
20potpotNOUNNumber=Sing17 placedobl
21andandCCONJ_22 hungcc
22hunghangVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 placedconj
23overoverADP_25 firecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 firedet
25firefireNOUNNumber=Sing22 hungobl
26totoPART_27 keepmark
27keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf22 hungadvcl
28warmwarmADJDegree=Pos27 keepxcomp
29forforADP_30 Odecase
30OdeOdePROPNNumber=Sing27 keepobl
31whenwhenADVPronType=Int33 returnedadvmod
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 returnednsubj
33returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 keepadvcl
34fromfromADP_36 rivercase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 riverdet
36riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing33 returnedobl
37..PUNCT_2 reservedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reservepastEssamaa leg and the soupa yam oblvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
2placepasta yama potESSAMA nsubjvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pot=Destination
3hangpasta yam not said herethe firevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fire=Location
4keepto-infinitivea yam not said herefor Ode; warm propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5returnpastBROTHERthe rivervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial_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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