Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 137
He also told them that what he had done was for the good of all people, and asked them to support him at the meeting, and if it came to a fight, that they should all be on the same side.
Who acts: chief, meeting, men · What happens: tell, do, be, ask, support, come · To what, where: men, chief, meeting, fight, same side · 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 (chief, meeting, men), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 good | mark |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 good | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 done | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 good | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 good | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 good | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 support | mark |
| 22 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 support | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 meeting | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 meeting | det |
| 26 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 support | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 came | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 asked | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 fight | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fight | det |
| 34 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 side | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 side | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 side | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 side | aux |
| 39 | all | all | ADV | _ | 44 side | advmod |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 side | cop |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 side | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 side | det |
| 43 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 side | amod |
| 44 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | chief | men = man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | chief | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | of all people; what nsubj; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | chief not said here | men = man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | support not said to happen | to-infinitive | chief not said here | chief | the meeting | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | come a condition, not said to happen | past | meeting | a fight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | is | should | men = man | the same side | all 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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