Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 43
When he heard that the goat could not be found, the chief made a great palaver with Ode, who began to cry.
Who acts: BROTHER, chief, great palaver · What happens: hear, not find, make, begin, cry · To what, where: goat · 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 (BROTHER, chief, great palaver), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 goat | det |
| 6 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 found | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 palaver | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 palaver | amod |
| 17 | palaver | palaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 began | nsubj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Ode | case |
| 19 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 palaver | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 cry | mark |
| 24 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | BROTHER | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not find | could · passive | the goat | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the chief | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | a great palaver with Ode | who nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | a great palaver with Ode not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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