Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 132

His wives were very much surprised when they saw what had been done to their late husband, as, during his lifetime, he had been quite all right.

Who acts: wives, chief · What happens: be, see, do · 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 (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	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	6 surprised	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 surprised	advmod
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprised	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 done	obj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 done	aux:pass
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 saw	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 husband	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
16	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 husband	amod
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 done	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lifetime	punct
19	as	as	ADP	_	23 lifetime	case
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lifetime	punct
21	during	during	ADP	_	23 lifetime	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lifetime	nmod:poss
23	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 done	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 right	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 right	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 right	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 right	cop
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 right	advmod
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 right	advmod
30	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprised	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	chief's wives	surprised property	tree rules
2	see	past	wives = wife		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past · perfect · passive		to wives's late husband; as chief's lifetime; what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
4	is	past · perfect	chief	all, right property	tree rules

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 132

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 132