Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 33
He therefore sent a messenger to Inde to tell Edidor to return at once to Okuni.
Who acts: Ode · What happens: send, tell, return · To what, where: messenger, Inde, Edidor, Okuni · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 messenger | det |
| 5 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Inde | case |
| 7 | Inde | Inde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 10 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 return | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Okuni | case |
| 16 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 return | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Ode | a messenger | Inde | therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to inde=Destination | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Ode not said here | Edidor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent edidor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ode not said here | Okuni | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to okuni=Result |
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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