Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 77
Then Chief Okim called out Essama’s mother and told her what her daughter had done, nearly causing him to lose his son altogether.
Who acts: Chief, daughter · What happens: call out, tell, do, cause, lose · To what, where: mother, ESSAMA, chief, son · 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 (Chief, daughter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | Okim | Okim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chief | flat |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | Essama | Essama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Essama | case |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 told | obj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 causing | punct |
| 18 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 19 causing | advmod |
| 19 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 told | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 causing | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lose | mark |
| 22 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 causing | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lose | obj |
| 25 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 22 lose | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | Chief | Essama's mother | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Chief not said here | ESSAMA | what obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | ESSAMA's daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cause | gerund | Chief not said here | chief | nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive | chief not said here | chief's son | altogether property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality |
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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