Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 144
Then ’Nyambi stood up and questioned the chief, as follows: “What will be done to the man who did this?
Who acts: Nyambi, man · What happens: stand up, question, follow, do · To what, where: chief, this · 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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 questioned | cc |
| 7 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 questioned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 follows | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 follows | mark |
| 12 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 done | obj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 done | aux:pass |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 follows | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 done | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 did | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | Nyambi | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | Nyambi not said here | the chief | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | Nyambi not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future · passive | Nyambi not said here | to the man; What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | the man | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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