Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 34
But Edidor was enjoying herself too much, and had no desire to return to her husband.
Who acts: Edidor · What happens: enjoy, have, return · To what, where: Edidor, desire
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 enjoying | cc |
| 2 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 enjoying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enjoying | aux |
| 4 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 enjoying | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 enjoying | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enjoying | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 desire | det |
| 12 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 return | mark |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desire | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 husband | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 husband | nmod:poss |
| 17 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 return | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enjoying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past · progressive | Edidor | Edidor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Edidor not said here | no desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | Edidor not said here | no desire not said here | to Edidor's husband result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to husband=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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