Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 26
But Ode would not go home, and got an Inde boy to show him the place where the ju-ju man lived.
Who acts: Ode, ju man · What happens: not go, get, show, live · To what, where: Inde boy, place, Ode
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 (Ode, ju 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 11 | Inde | Inde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | compound |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 got | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 show | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 lived | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 20 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ju | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ju | punct |
| 22 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | compound |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lived | nsubj |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | would | Ode | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Ode not said here | a Inde boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | Ode not said here | the place | Ode | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic | |||
| 4 | live | past | the ju man | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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