Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 108
He then said, “I find you as a thief and one who would commit adultery with my wife.
Who acts: NYAMBI · What happens: say, find, commit · To what, where: you, adultery · 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 thief | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thief | det |
| 11 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 one | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 thief | conj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 commit | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 commit | aux |
| 16 | commit | commit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | adultery | adultery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commit | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | NYAMBI | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present | NYAMBI | you | as a thief | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme as thief=Attribute | |||
| 3 | commit in a quote | would | adultery | with my wife; who nsubj | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=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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