Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 103

Oga asked Obim to come to him at once, but she told him to wait a little, as all the people had not then gone to bed.

Who acts: Oga, OBIM, people · What happens: ask, come, tell, wait, not go · To what, where: Obim, OGA, little, bed · 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 (Oga, OBIM, people), 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	Oga	Oga	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wait	mark
16	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wait	obl:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gone	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 gone	mark
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 people	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gone	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 gone	advmod
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 gone	advmod
27	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 told	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 bed	case
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Oga		Obim			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent obim=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Oga not said here		OGA			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	OBIM		OGA			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive	OBIM not said here	a little				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not go	past · perfect	all people			bed	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 103

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 103