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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 38

Essama replied that she had not seen the goat walking about anywhere since he had gone down to the river, and advised him to search everywhere for him.

Who acts: Essama, goat, BROTHER · What happens: reply, not see, walk, go down, advise, search · To what, where: goat, BROTHER · 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 (Essama, goat, 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

nsubjmarknsubjauxadvmodccompdetobjxcompadvmodadvmodmarknsubjauxadvcladvmodcasedetoblpunctccconjobjmarkxcompadvmodcaseoblpunctrootEssamaPROPNrepliedVERBthatSCONJshePRONhadAUXnotPARTseenVERBtheDETgoatNOUNwalkingVERBaboutADVanywhereADVsinceSCONJhePRONhadAUXgoneVERBdownADVtoADPtheDETriverNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJadvisedVERBhimPRONtoPARTsearchVERBeverywhereADVforADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EssamaEssamaPROPNNumber=Sing2 repliednsubj
2repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thatthatSCONJ_7 seenmark
4sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 seennsubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 seenaux
6notnotPARTPolarity=Neg7 seenadvmod
7seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 repliedccomp
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 goatdet
9goatgoatNOUNNumber=Sing7 seenobj
10walkingwalkVERBVerbForm=Ger7 seenxcomp
11aboutaboutADV_12 anywhereadvmod
12anywhereanywhereADVPronType=Ind10 walkingadvmod
13sincesinceSCONJ_16 gonemark
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 gonensubj
15hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 goneaux
16gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part12 anywhereadvcl
17downdownADV_16 goneadvmod
18totoADP_20 rivercase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 riverdet
20riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing16 goneobl
21,,PUNCT_23 advisedpunct
22andandCCONJ_23 advisedcc
23advisedadviseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 repliedconj
24himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 advisedobj
25totoPART_26 searchmark
26searchsearchVERBVerbForm=Inf23 advisedxcomp
27everywhereeverywhereADVPronType=Tot26 searchadvmod
28forforADP_29 himcase
29himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 searchobl
30..PUNCT_2 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastEssamavn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2not seepast · perfectESSAMAthe goattree rules
3walkgerundthe goat not said hereanywhere propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4go downpast · perfectBROTHERto the river; down propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5advise speech: otherpastEssama not said hereBROTHERvn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6search not said to happento-infinitiveBROTHER not said herefor BROTHER; everywhere propertyvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme

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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