Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 75
Chief Okim then gave a great feast, and killed many cows and goats, and there was a big play and dancing in the town.
Who acts: Chief, big play · What happens: give, kill, be · To what, where: great feast, many cows
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 (Chief, big play), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | Okim | Okim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feast | amod |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 killed | cc |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cows | amod |
| 12 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 killed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 goats | cc |
| 14 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cows | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 play | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 play | amod |
| 21 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dancing | cc |
| 23 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 play | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dancing | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Chief | a great feast | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | past | Chief not said here | many cows and goats | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a big play and dancing in the town | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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