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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 4

So the elephant went to Agbor Adam’s house and, having broken the door open, dragged him out with his trunk, and brought him before the chief.

Who acts: elephant · What happens: go, break, drag out, bring · To what, where: house, door, elephant, chief

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 (elephant), 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

advmoddetnsubjcasecompoundnmod:posscaseoblccpunctauxconjdetobjxcomppunctconjobjcompound:prtcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjobjcasedetoblpunctrootSoADVtheDETelephantNOUNwentVERBtoADPAgborPROPNAdamPROPN’sPARThouseNOUNandCCONJ,PUNCThavingAUXbrokenVERBtheDETdoorNOUNopenADJ,PUNCTdraggedVERBhimPRONoutADPwithADPhisPRONtrunkNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbroughtVERBhimPRONbeforeADPtheDETchiefNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_4 wentadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 elephantdet
3elephantelephantNOUNNumber=Sing4 wentnsubj
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_9 housecase
6AgborAgborPROPNNumber=Sing7 Adamcompound
7AdamAdamPROPNNumber=Sing9 housenmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 Adamcase
9househouseNOUNNumber=Sing4 wentobl
10andandCCONJ_13 brokencc
11,,PUNCT_10 andpunct
12havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 brokenaux
13brokenbreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part4 wentconj
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 doordet
15doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing13 brokenobj
16openopenADJDegree=Pos13 brokenxcomp
17,,PUNCT_18 draggedpunct
18draggeddragVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 draggedobj
20outoutADP_18 draggedcompound:prt
21withwithADP_23 trunkcase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 trunknmod:poss
23trunktrunkNOUNNumber=Sing18 draggedobl
24,,PUNCT_26 broughtpunct
25andandCCONJ_26 broughtcc
26broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 broughtobj
28beforebeforeADP_30 chiefcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 chiefdet
30chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing26 broughtobl
31..PUNCT_4 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastthe elephantAgbor Adam's housevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2breakgerund · perfectthe elephant not said herethe dooropen propertyvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Patient
3drag outpastthe elephant not said hereelephantwith elephant's trunkvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4bringpastthe elephant not said hereelephantthe chiefvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before chief=Destination

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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