Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 79
The rods were brought to the chief, and half the amount was given to Ode.
What happens: bring, give · To what, where: rods, chief, amount, Ode
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: 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 rods | det |
| 2 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 chief | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 10 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 amount | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 amount | det |
| 12 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Ode | case |
| 16 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the rods | the chief | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to chief=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | half amount | Ode | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ode=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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