Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 2
She was a good dancer and singer, and won the love of plenty of young men, but although she liked to enjoy herself with them, she would not marry any of them.
Who acts: Edidor · What happens: be, win, like, enjoy, not marry, love · To what, where: good dancer, love, Edidor, any, plenty
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 (Edidor), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dancer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dancer | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dancer | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dancer | amod |
| 5 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 singer | cc |
| 7 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dancer | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 won | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 won | cc |
| 10 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dancer | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 love | det |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 won | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 plenty | case |
| 14 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 love | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 plenty | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 marry | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 marry | cc |
| 20 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 liked | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 liked | nsubj |
| 22 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 marry | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 enjoy | mark |
| 24 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 liked | xcomp |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 enjoy | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 enjoy | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 liked | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 marry | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 marry | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 marry | advmod |
| 32 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 won | conj |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 marry | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 any | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dancer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Edidor | a good dancer and singer | singer conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | win | past | the love of plenty of young men | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | like | past | Edidor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | enjoy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Edidor not said here | Edidor | with men = man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not marry | would | Edidor | any of men | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | ||||
| 6 | love | plenty of young men | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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