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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 6

As no one could understand the bird, the chief sent to Uman compound for a woman named Iman, who was a native of Abijon, and could, therefore, speak Ingor.

Who acts: one, Iman, you · What happens: understand, send, name, be, speak · To what, where: bird, chief, Uman compound, woman, native, Ingor · 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 (one, Iman, you), 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

markdetnsubjauxadvcldetobjpunctdetapposaclcaseamodoblcasedetobl:agentaclxcomppunctnsubjcopdetapposcasenmodpunctccconjpunctadvmodpunctobjpunctrootAsSCONJnoDEToneNOUNcouldAUXunderstandVERBtheDETbirdNOUN,PUNCTtheDETchiefNOUNsentVERBtoADPUmanADJcompoundNOUNforADPaDETwomanNOUNnamedVERBImanPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXaDETnativeNOUNofADPAbijonPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJcouldAUX,PUNCTthereforeADV,PUNCTspeakVERBIngorPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_5 understandmark
2nonoDETPronType=Neg3 onedet
3oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing5 understandnsubj
4couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin5 understandaux
5understandunderstandVERBVerbForm=Inf33 speakadvcl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 birddet
7birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing5 understandobj
8,,PUNCT_10 chiefpunct
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 chiefdet
10chiefchiefNOUNNumber=Sing7 birdappos
11sentsendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 chiefacl
12totoADP_14 compoundcase
13UmanumanADJDegree=Pos14 compoundamod
14compoundcompoundNOUNNumber=Sing11 sentobl
15forforADP_17 womancase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 womandet
17womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing11 sentobl:agent
18namednameVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 womanacl
19ImanImanPROPNNumber=Sing18 namedxcomp
20,,PUNCT_24 nativepunct
21whowhoPRONPronType=Rel24 nativensubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 nativecop
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 nativedet
24nativenativeNOUNNumber=Sing19 Imanappos
25ofofADP_26 Abijoncase
26AbijonAbijonPROPNNumber=Sing24 nativenmod
27,,PUNCT_29 couldpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 couldcc
29couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin5 understandconj
30,,PUNCT_29 couldpunct
31thereforethereforeADV_29 couldadvmod
32,,PUNCT_33 speakpunct
33speakspeakVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
34IngorIngorPROPNNumber=Sing33 speakobj
35..PUNCT_33 speakpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1understandcouldno onethe birdvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2sendparticiplethe chief not said hereUman compounda woman obl:agentvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to compound=Destination
3nameparticiplea woman not said hereIman xcompvn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4is apastImana nativeof Abijontree rules
5speak speech: otherimperativeyou not said hereIngortree rules

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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