Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 67
When Oyonga had sufficiently recovered from the flogging he had received, he begged the chief to go with him to the river where he had heard the voice; at first the chief refused to go, but after much persuasion he consented.
Who acts: Oyonga, chief · What happens: recover, receive, beg, go, hear, refuse · To what, where: flogging, chief, river, voice · 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 (Oyonga, 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | Oyonga | Oyonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recovered | aux |
| 4 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 5 recovered | advmod |
| 5 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 begged | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 flogging | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flogging | det |
| 8 | flogging | flogging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recovered | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | aux |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 flogging | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 recovered | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 begged | nsubj |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 begged | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 begged | ccomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 heard | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 heard | aux |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 river | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 voice | det |
| 29 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heard | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 refused | punct |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 first | case |
| 32 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 refused | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 chief | det |
| 34 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 refused | nsubj |
| 35 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 begged | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 go | mark |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 refused | xcomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 consented | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 consented | cc |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 42 persuasion | case |
| 41 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 persuasion | amod |
| 42 | persuasion | persuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 consented | obl |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 consented | nsubj |
| 44 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 begged | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect | Oyonga | the flogging | sufficiently property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from flogging=Source | |||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect | Oyonga | the flogging not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flogging=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | Oyonga | the chief | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the river | with Oyonga | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | Oyonga | the voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | refuse | past | the chief | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | not go | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | consent | past | Oyonga | after much persuasion | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «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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