Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 143
I shall be glad if any young man of the town who knows anything about this palaver will inform me.”
Who acts: I, town, young man · What happens: be, know, inform · To what, where: anything, me
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, town, young man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 inform | mark |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inform | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 knows | nsubj |
| 13 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 town | acl:relcl |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 knows | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 palaver | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 palaver | det |
| 17 | palaver | palaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 anything | nmod |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 inform | aux |
| 19 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 inform | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | the town | anything | about this palaver | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | inform speech: other a condition, not said to happen | future | any young man of the town | me | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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