Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 151
And the head chief replied, “He is tied up to a tree, and left there to die.” ’
Who acts: head chief · What happens: reply, tie up, leave, die · To what, where: head chief, chief · 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 (head chief), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | compound |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 chief | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tied | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tied | punct |
| 8 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tied | aux:pass |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 tied | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tied | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 left | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 die | mark |
| 20 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 left | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the head chief not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tie up in a quote | present · passive | chief | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | past | the head chief | there | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | the head chief not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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