Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 78
He had a very beautiful wife whose name was Inkang Ezen.
Who acts: man, name, Inkang · What happens: have, be, name · To what, where: beautiful wife, Inkang
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, name, Inkang), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Inkang | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Inkang | cop |
| 10 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | appos |
| 11 | Ezen | Ezen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Inkang | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | a beautiful wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Inkang's name | Inkang | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | Inkang | 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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