Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 37

Agbor implored the people to kill him at once, but they refused, and left him tied up to the post, where he died during the night from loss of blood.

Who acts: Agbor, people · What happens: implore, kill, refuse, leave, tie up, die · To what, where: people, Agbor, loss

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agbor, people), 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	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 implored	nsubj
2	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 implored	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 implored	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 kill	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 refused	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 refused	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 refused	nsubj
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 implored	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 left	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 left	cc
16	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 implored	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 left	obj
18	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 left	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 tied	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 post	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 post	det
22	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tied	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 died	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 died	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 died	nsubj
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 post	acl:relcl
27	during	during	ADP	_	29 night	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 night	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 died	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 loss	case
31	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 died	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 blood	case
33	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 loss	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	implore	past	Agbor		the people				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
2	kill	to-infinitive	Agbor not said here	Agbor					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	refuse	past	people						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	leave	past	Agbor not said here	Agbor					tree rules
5	tie up	participle	Agbor not said here					to the post	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to post=Co-Patient
6	die	past	Agbor			loss of blood	night		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from loss=Causer

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 37