Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 107
Nyambi told him to be quiet and not to make a noise or he would kill him at once.
Who acts: Nyambi · What happens: tell, be, not make, kill · To what, where: chief, noise · 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 (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 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 quiet | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quiet | cop |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 make | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quiet | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 noise | det |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 kill | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | aux |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 kill | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Nyambi | chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nyambi not said here | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not make | to-infinitive | Nyambi not said here | a noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 4 | kill | would | NYAMBI | chief | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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