Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 29

The Inde boy who had gone with Ode, directly they had gone a little distance from the house, strongly urged Ode to go home, as the sticks the ju-ju man had given to him were known to be very dangerous, and if he went there again Ekum would probably either poison him or call upon the lightning to kill him, which he was quite capable of doing.

Who acts: Inde boy, wives, ju man, Ode, Ekum · What happens: go, urge, give, know, be, poison · To what, where: little distance, house, Ode, sticks · 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 (Inde boy, wives, ju man, Ode), 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	3 boy	det
2	Inde	Inde	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boy	compound
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Ode	case
8	Ode	Ode	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
10	directly	directly	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gone	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 distance	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 distance	amod
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 distance	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 urged	punct
21	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	22 urged	advmod
22	urged	urge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gone	conj
23	Ode	Ode	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 urged	iobj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 urged	xcomp
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sticks	punct
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 sticks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sticks	det
30	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 known	nsubj:pass
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 man	det
32	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ju	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 ju	punct
34	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 man	compound
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 given	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 given	aux
37	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 sticks	acl:relcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 given	obl
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 known	aux:pass
41	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 go	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	45 dangerous	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 dangerous	cop
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 dangerous	advmod
45	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 known	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 went	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 went	cc
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 went	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 went	nsubj
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 urged	conj
51	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 went	advmod
52	again	again	ADV	_	50 went	advmod
53	Ekum	Ekum	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 poison	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 poison	aux
55	probably	probably	ADV	_	57 poison	advmod
56	either	either	CCONJ	_	57 poison	cc:preconj
57	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 went	parataxis
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 poison	obj
59	or	or	CCONJ	_	60 call	cc
60	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 poison	conj
61	upon	upon	ADP	_	63 lightning	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 lightning	det
63	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 call	obl
64	to	to	PART	_	65 kill	mark
65	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 call	advcl
66	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 kill	obj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 capable	punct
68	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	72 capable	nsubj
69	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 capable	nsubj
70	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 capable	cop
71	quite	quite	ADV	_	72 capable	advmod
72	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 kill	parataxis
73	of	of	SCONJ	_	74 doing	mark
74	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	72 capable	advcl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the Inde boy					with Ode; who nsubj	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ode=Beneficiary
2	go	past · perfect	wives = wife	a little distance		the house		directly property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
3	urge	participle	the Inde boy not said here		Ode			strongly property	vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent ode=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Inde boy not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past · perfect	the ju man	the sticks not said here	Ode				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stick=Theme to he=Recipient
6	know	past · passive		the sticks					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
7	is	to-infinitive						dangerous property	tree rules
8	go a condition, not said to happen	past	Ode			there	again		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	poison	would	Ekum	Ode				probably property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
10	call	infinitive	Ekum not said here					upon the lightning	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	kill	to-infinitive	Ekum not said here	Ode					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
12	is	past						which nsubj; Ekum nsubj; capable property	tree rules
13	do	gerund							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 29

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 29