Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 3
At last, however, she met a man called Ode, to whom she took a great fancy, and married him.
Who acts: Edidor · What happens: meet, call, take, marry · To what, where: man, last, great fancy, Ode · 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 met | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 met | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 man | acl |
| 11 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whom | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 met | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 whom | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fancy | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fancy | amod |
| 19 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 married | cc |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 married | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Edidor | a man | last | whom obl; however property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | call | participle | a man not said here | Ode xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Edidor | a great fancy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry | past | Edidor not said here | Ode | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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