Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 73
This chief had five wives and several children by each, but he disliked them all with the exception of the last born whose name was Eba.
Who acts: chief, COCK, Eba · What happens: have, dislike, bear, be, name · To what, where: five wives, children, Eba
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 (chief, COCK, Eba), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wives | nummod |
| 5 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 children | cc |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wives | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 had | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disliked | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 disliked | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 disliked | nsubj |
| 14 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 disliked | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 exception | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 exception | det |
| 19 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disliked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 name | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 name | det |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 born | amod |
| 23 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 name | amod |
| 24 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Eba | obl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Eba | cop |
| 27 | Eba | Eba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 exception | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this chief | five wives and several children | by each | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 2 | dislike | past | COCK | children = child | with the exception | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | Eba | of Eba's born name | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | name | Eba | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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