Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 9
Chief Alobi passed a law that women should not eat animals killed by the men in hunting, and that the men should not eat the fish caught by the women.
Who acts: Chief, women, men · What happens: pass, not eat, kill, catch · To what, where: law, animals, hunting, fish
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, women, men), 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 | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | Alobi | Alobi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 law | det |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 eat | obj |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 eat | advmod |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 law | acl:relcl |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eat | obj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 animals | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 killed | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hunting | case |
| 17 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eat | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 men | det |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 eat | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 eat | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 eat | advmod |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fish | det |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eat | obj |
| 28 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 fish | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 women | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 women | det |
| 31 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 caught | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Chief | a law | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme law=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not eat | should | women | a law | animals obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | kill | participle | animals not said here | hunting | by the men | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | not eat | should | the men | the fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 5 | catch | participle | the fish not said here | by the women | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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