Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 16
When Tawn had embraced his future son-in-law, he ordered a cow to be killed to welcome him.
Who acts: Tawn · What happens: embrace, order, kill, welcome · To what, where: future son, law, cow, Tawn
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tawn), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 embraced | advmod |
| 2 | Tawn | Tawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 embraced | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 embraced | aux |
| 4 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 ordered | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 embraced | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 embraced | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ordered | nsubj |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cow | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 welcome | mark |
| 21 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 killed | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 welcome | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past · perfect | Tawn | Tawn's future son | law | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | order | past | Tawn | a cow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive · passive | Tawn not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | welcome | to-infinitive | Tawn not said here | Tawn | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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