Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 37
Having got some strong poison from the ju-ju man he told his wife to prepare palm oil chop for Okpa and his family.
Who acts: OGHABI · What happens: have, get, tell, prepare · To what, where: strong poison, wife, palm oil chop · 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 poison | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 poison | amod |
| 5 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 8 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ju | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ju | punct |
| 10 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 prepare | mark |
| 17 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | xcomp |
| 18 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chop | compound |
| 19 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chop | compound |
| 20 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prepare | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 Okpa | case |
| 22 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 chop | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 family | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 family | nmod:poss |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 chop | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | get | past | some strong poison | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poison=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | OGHABI | OGHABI's wife | from the ju man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | prepare not said to happen | to-infinitive | OGHABI not said here | palm oil chop and OGHABI's family | for Okpa | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent chop=Product for okpa=Beneficiary |
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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