Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 105
Not long afterwards, ’Nyambi opened the door and found Chief Oga asleep in his wife’s bed; so he fastened the door securely, and, having got his knife ready, made the fire blaze and woke the chief up.
Who acts: Nyambi, chief, having · What happens: open, find, fasten, have, get, make · To what, where: door, knife, fire blaze, chief
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 (Nyambi, chief, having), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 opened | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
| 6 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 12 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asleep | nsubj |
| 13 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Chief | flat |
| 14 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 found | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asleep | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 fastened | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 fastened | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fastened | nsubj |
| 23 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fastened | obj |
| 26 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 23 fastened | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 got | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 having | punct |
| 30 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 got | csubj |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 knife | nmod:poss |
| 33 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 got | obj |
| 34 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 got | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 blaze | det |
| 38 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 blaze | compound |
| 39 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 woke | cc |
| 41 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 made | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 chief | det |
| 43 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 woke | obj |
| 44 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 woke | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Nyambi | the door | long property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | Nyambi not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fasten | past | chief | the door | securely property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | get | past | having | chief's knife | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | make | past | Nyambi not said here | the fire blaze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blaze=Product | ||||
| 7 | wake up | past | Nyambi not said here | the chief | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chief=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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