Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 104
Very soon Chief Oga dropped off to sleep, so Obim went to the door very quietly and undid the fastening.
Who acts: Chief, Obim · What happens: drop off, sleep, go, undo · To what, where: door, fastening
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 (Chief, 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 dropped | advmod |
| 3 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Chief | flat |
| 5 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 dropped | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dropped | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dropped | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 quietly | advmod |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 undid | cc |
| 19 | undid | undo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fastening | det |
| 21 | fastening | fastening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 undid | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop off | past | Chief | soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Obim | the door | quietly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | undo | past | Obim not said here | the fastening | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fastening=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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