Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 13
When he returned home his friends encouraged him to make another attempt to get his wife back, and advised him to take a larger canoe, which would not be so likely to upset.
Who acts: Ode, friends, larger canoe · What happens: return, encourage, make, get back, advise, take · To what, where: Ode, attempt, wife, larger canoe
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, friends, larger 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 encouraged | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 encouraged | nsubj |
| 7 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 encouraged | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 encouraged | xcomp |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 attempt | det |
| 12 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 attempt | acl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 advised | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 advised | cc |
| 20 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 encouraged | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 advised | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 advised | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 canoe | det |
| 25 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 canoe | amod |
| 26 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 likely | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 likely | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 likely | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 likely | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 likely | cop |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 likely | advmod |
| 33 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 canoe | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 upset | mark |
| 35 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 likely | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 encouraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Ode | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | encourage | past | Ode's friends | Ode | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ode not said here | another attempt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | ||||
| 4 | get back | to-infinitive | Ode not said here | Ode's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | past | Ode's friends not said here | Ode | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ode not said here | a larger canoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not is | would | a larger canoe | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | upset | to-infinitive | a larger canoe not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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