Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 12
He looked upon the sinking of the canoe as a bad omen and a warning to him not to go that day.
Who acts: Ode, canoe · What happens: look, not go, sink
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 (Ode, canoe), 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 | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 sinking | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sinking | det |
| 5 | sinking | sinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 canoe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 canoe | det |
| 8 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sinking | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 omen | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 omen | det |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 omen | amod |
| 12 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 warning | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 warning | det |
| 15 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 omen | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 warning | nmod |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 go | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Ode | upon the sinking of the canoe; as a bad omen and a warning to Inkum | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon sinking=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not go | to-infinitive | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sink | the canoe | nom sinking «event intransitive»: of=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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