Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 102
Obim let the chief in, and then fastened the door, telling him to lie down and that she would join him later on.
Who acts: Obim · What happens: let in, fasten, tell, lie down, join · To what, where: chief, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Obim), 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 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 let | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fastened | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fastened | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 fastened | advmod |
| 9 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fastened | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 telling | punct |
| 13 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fastened | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 telling | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 lie | mark |
| 16 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 telling | xcomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 lie | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 join | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 join | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 join | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 join | aux |
| 22 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lie | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 join | obj |
| 24 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 on | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 join | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in | past | Obim | the chief | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fasten | past | Obim not said here | the door | then | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Obim not said here | chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lie down not said to happen | to-infinitive | Obim not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | join | would | OBIM | chief | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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