Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 22
The chief gave Ode one of his boys to show him the way overland to Inde and they started off together.
Who acts: chief, friends · What happens: give, show, start off · To what, where: one, Ode, way
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 (chief, friends), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 boys | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 boys | nmod:poss |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 show | mark |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 show | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 show | obj |
| 14 | overland | overland | ADV | _ | 10 show | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Inde | case |
| 16 | Inde | Inde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 overland | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 started | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 started | nsubj |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 started | compound:prt |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 started | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the chief | one of Ode's boys | Ode | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ode=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | the way | Ode | overland property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic | ||
| 3 | start off | past | friends = friend | together property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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