Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 73
The people then beat drums and escorted the chief and his son back to the town, singing as they went.
Who acts: people · What happens: beat, escort, sing, go · To what, where: drums, chief, town · 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 (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beat | advmod |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beat | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 escorted | cc |
| 7 | escorted | escort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escorted | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 son | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chief | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 escorted | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 escorted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 singing | punct |
| 18 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 escorted | advcl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 went | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 singing | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | the people | drums | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | |||
| 2 | escort | past | the people not said here | the chief and chief's son | the town | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chief=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the people not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | past | people | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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