Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 142
Now I want to know who did this thing, and what became of the missing part of the late chief.
Who acts: I · What happens: want, know, do, become · To what, where: thing · 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 (I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 want | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 thing | det |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 part | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 part | det |
| 16 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 part | amod |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 chief | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chief | det |
| 20 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chief | amod |
| 21 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | past | this thing | who nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | become | past | of the missing part of the late chief; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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