Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 121

The chief’s wound took many days to heal, and at night, when his wives came to him, he had to send them away, saying he was not well.

Who acts: wound, wives, chief · What happens: take, heal, come, have, send away, say · To what, where: chief, wives · 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 (wound, wives, chief), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wound	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 chief	case
4	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 took	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 heal	mark
9	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 took	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 night	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wives	nmod:poss
17	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 send	mark
25	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 send	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	25 send	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 send	advcl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 well	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 well	cop
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 well	advmod
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 saying	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the chief's wound			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	heal	to-infinitive	the chief's wound not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	chief's wives		chief	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	have	past	wound					tree rules
5	send away	to-infinitive	wound not said here	wives = wife			away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	say speech: assert	gerund	wound not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	not is	past	wound				well property	tree rules
8	wound		the chief					nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 121

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 121