Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 69
Have you told my father to bring the white goat, ram, cock, and chicken to sacrifice to the ju-ju?”
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, bring, sacrifice · To what, where: father, white goat, ju ju · 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goat | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 goat | amod |
| 10 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ram | punct |
| 12 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goat | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cock | punct |
| 14 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chicken | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chicken | cc |
| 17 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sacrifice | mark |
| 19 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 chicken | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ju | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ju | det |
| 22 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ju | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ju | punct |
| 24 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sacrifice | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | you | my father | chicken parataxis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the white goat and ram and cock | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goat=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sacrifice | to-infinitive | you not said here | the ju ju | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ju=Recipient |
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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