Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 59
When the year of mourning was over, Chief Okim decided to build a new house, so he sent his boys to the river-side to get tie-tie.
Who acts: year, Chief · What happens: be, decide, build, send, get · To what, where: new house, boys, river side, tie tie
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 (year, Chief), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 7 over | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 over | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mourning | case |
| 5 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 decided | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 over | punct |
| 9 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 decided | nsubj |
| 10 | Okim | Okim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chief | flat |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 build | mark |
| 13 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 build | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 sent | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 decided | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 boys | nmod:poss |
| 22 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sent | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 side | det |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 side | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 river | punct |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 get | mark |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | advcl |
| 30 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tie | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 tie | punct |
| 32 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the year of mourning | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | Chief | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | a new house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | ||||
| 4 | send | past | chief | chief's boys | the river side | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to side=Destination | |||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | chief not said here | tie tie | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tie=Stimulus |
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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