Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 130
His wives, who had by that time all married other men, got permission from their husbands to go and mourn for Chief Oga.
Who acts: wives · What happens: have, marry, get, go, mourn · To what, where: other men, permission
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 (wives), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wives | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 married | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 married | advmod |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 married | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | conj |
| 15 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 husbands | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 got | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 got | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mourn | cc |
| 22 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Chief | case |
| 24 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mourn | obl |
| 25 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Chief | flat |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | time | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | chief's wives | other men | all property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 3 | get | past | chief's wives not said here | permission | from wives's husbands | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent permission=Theme from husband=Source | |||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | chief's wives not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mourn | infinitive | chief's wives not said here | for Chief | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for chief=Attribute |
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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