Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 134
The chiefs then came and inspected the body, and afterwards met in the palaver house to try and find out who had mutilated Chief Oga.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: come, inspect, meet, try, find out, mutilate · To what, where: body, palaver house, Chief · 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 (chiefs), 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 chiefs | det |
| 2 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 inspected | cc |
| 6 | inspected | inspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inspected | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 met | cc |
| 11 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 12 met | advmod |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | palaver | palaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 try | mark |
| 18 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 met | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 try | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 find | compound:prt |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 mutilated | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 mutilated | aux |
| 24 | mutilated | mutilate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 find | ccomp |
| 25 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 mutilated | obj |
| 26 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Chief | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the chiefs | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inspect | past | the chiefs not said here | the body | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | participle | the chiefs not said here | the palaver house | afterwards property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | the chiefs not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | find out | infinitive | the chiefs not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | mutilate | past · perfect | Chief | who nsubj | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Patient |
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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