Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 136
Directly ’Nyambi heard the drum, he called all his company to his house, and told them what he had done to Chief Oga.
Who acts: Nyambi · What happens: hear, call, tell, do · To what, where: drum, company, house, men, 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 (Nyambi), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 3 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 drum | det |
| 6 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 company | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 company | nmod:poss |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 done | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 told | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Chief | case |
| 25 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 done | obl |
| 26 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Chief | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Nyambi | the drum | directly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | call | past | NYAMBI | NYAMBI's company | NYAMBI's house | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to house=Recipient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Nyambi not said here | men = man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | NYAMBI | Chief | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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