Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 39
Chief Elullo then invited Chief ’Ndabu to dine with him, and asked him to bring his wife and all his children.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: invite, dine, ask, bring · To what, where: Ndabu, chief, wife
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief), 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 invited | nsubj |
| 2 | Elullo | Elullo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 invited | advmod |
| 4 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ndabu | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 5 Chief | case |
| 7 | Ndabu | Ndabu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 invited | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 dine | mark |
| 9 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invited | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dine | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invited | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 children | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 children | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 children | nmod:poss |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wife | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | Chief | Chief's Ndabu | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ndabu=Recipient | |||
| 2 | dine | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | with chief | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Chief not said here | chief | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | chief's wife and chief's children | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
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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