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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 30

After she had gone home Oghabi’s wife told her husband what Okpa’s wife had said, and Oghabi agreed and sent off for the ju-ju man at once.

Who acts: wife, Oghabi · What happens: go, tell, say, agree, send off · To what, where: husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Oghabi), 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

marknsubjauxadvcladvmodnmod:posscasensubjnmod:possiobjobjnmod:posscasensubjauxacl:relclpunctccnsubjparataxisccconjcompound:prtcasedetcompoundpunctcompoundoblcaseoblpunctrootAfterSCONJshePRONhadAUXgoneVERBhomeADVOghabiPROPN’sPARTwifeNOUNtoldVERBherPRONhusbandNOUNwhatPRONOkpaPROPN’sPARTwifeNOUNhadAUXsaidVERB,PUNCTandCCONJOghabiPROPNagreedVERBandCCONJsentVERBoffADPforADPtheDETjuNOUN-PUNCTjuNOUNmanNOUNatADPonceADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_4 gonemark
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 gonensubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 goneaux
4gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part9 toldadvcl
5homehomeADV_4 goneadvmod
6OghabiOghabiPROPNNumber=Sing8 wifenmod:poss
7’s'sPART_6 Oghabicase
8wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing9 toldnsubj
9toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 husbandnmod:poss
11husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing9 toldiobj
12whatwhatPRONPronType=Int17 saidobj
13OkpaOkpaPROPNNumber=Sing15 wifenmod:poss
14’s'sPART_13 Okpacase
15wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing17 saidnsubj
16hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 saidaux
17saidsayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part11 husbandacl:relcl
18,,PUNCT_21 agreedpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 agreedcc
20OghabiOghabiPROPNNumber=Sing21 agreednsubj
21agreedagreeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 toldparataxis
22andandCCONJ_23 sentcc
23sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 agreedconj
24offoffADP_23 sentcompound:prt
25forforADP_30 mancase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 mandet
27jujuNOUNNumber=Sing29 jucompound
28--PUNCT_27 jupunct
29jujuNOUNNumber=Sing30 mancompound
30manmanNOUNNumber=Sing23 sentobl
31atatADP_32 oncecase
32onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult23 sentobl
33..PUNCT_9 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopast · perfectwifehome propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2tell speech: assertpastOghabi's wifewife's husbandvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
3say speech: assertpast · perfectOkpa's wifewife's husbandvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4agree speech: agreepastOghabivn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5send offpastOghabi not said herefor the ju manvn confine-92-1 «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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