Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 106
When Oga awoke he saw ’Nyambi standing over him with his knife pointing at his breast. ’
Who acts: Oga, Nyambi · What happens: awake, see, stand, point · To what, where: breast
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, Nyambi), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 standing | punct |
| 7 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | nsubj |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 standing | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 knife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl |
| 14 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 standing | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 breast | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 breast | nmod:poss |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pointing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Oga | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | OGA | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | Nyambi | over OGA; with NYAMBI's knife | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location | ||||
| 4 | point | gerund | Nyambi not said here | NYAMBI's breast | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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