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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 14

Ode started off in a big canoe the following morning; but when he got to the other side of the river he heard a kingfisher making a noise on his right-hand side, in a bush overhanging the river.

Who acts: Ode, kingfisher, bush · What happens: start off, follow, get, hear, make, overhang · To what, where: big canoe, kingfisher, bush, noise, hand side, river

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 (Ode, kingfisher, bush), 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

nsubjcompound:prtcasedetamodobldetamodobl:unmarkedpunctccadvmodnsubjadvclcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodnsubjconjdetobjacldetobjcasenmod:possamodpunctcompoundoblpunctcasedetoblacldetobjpunctrootOdePROPNstartedVERBoffADPinADPaDETbigADJcanoeNOUNtheDETfollowingVERBmorningNOUN;PUNCTbutCCONJwhenADVhePRONgotVERBtoADPtheDETotherADJsideNOUNofADPtheDETriverNOUNhePRONheardVERBaDETkingfisherNOUNmakingVERBaDETnoiseNOUNonADPhisPRONrightADJ-PUNCThandNOUNsideNOUN,PUNCTinADPaDETbushNOUNoverhangingVERBtheDETriverNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OdeOdePROPNNumber=Sing2 startednsubj
2startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3offoffADP_2 startedcompound:prt
4ininADP_7 canoecase
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 canoedet
6bigbigADJDegree=Pos7 canoeamod
7canoecanoeNOUNNumber=Sing2 startedobl
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 morningdet
9followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger10 morningamod
10morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing2 startedobl:unmarked
11;;PUNCT_24 heardpunct
12butbutCCONJ_24 heardcc
13whenwhenADVPronType=Int15 gotadvmod
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 gotnsubj
15gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 heardadvcl
16totoADP_19 sidecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 sidedet
18otherotherADJDegree=Pos19 sideamod
19sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing15 gotobl
20ofofADP_22 rivercase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 riverdet
22riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing19 sidenmod
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 heardnsubj
24heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 startedconj
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 kingfisherdet
26kingfisherkingfisherNOUNNumber=Sing24 heardobj
27makingmakeVERBVerbForm=Ger26 kingfisheracl
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 noisedet
29noisenoiseNOUNNumber=Sing27 makingobj
30ononADP_35 sidecase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 sidenmod:poss
32rightrightADJDegree=Pos34 handamod
33--PUNCT_32 rightpunct
34handhandNOUNNumber=Sing35 sidecompound
35sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing27 makingobl
36,,PUNCT_39 bushpunct
37ininADP_39 bushcase
38aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 bushdet
39bushbushNOUNNumber=Sing24 heardobl
40overhangingoverhangVERBVerbForm=Ger39 bushacl
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 riverdet
42riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing40 overhangingobj
43..PUNCT_2 startedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1start offpastOdea big canoemorningvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2followgerundvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3getpastOdeto the other side of the river resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to side=Result
4hearpastOdea kingfishera bushvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer kingfisher=Stimulus
5makegerunda kingfisher not said herea noiseOde's hand sidevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
6overhanggerunda bush not said herethe rivervn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Co-Theme

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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