Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 39
She therefore packed up her things, and was starting off for Inde when Ode seized her and said she was not to go.
Who acts: Edidor, Ode · What happens: pack up, start off, seize, say, not be · To what, where: things, Edidor · 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, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 packed | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 packed | advmod |
| 3 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 packed | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 things | nmod:poss |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 packed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 starting | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 starting | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 starting | aux |
| 10 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 packed | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 starting | compound:prt |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Inde | case |
| 13 | Inde | Inde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 starting | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 seized | advmod |
| 15 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seized | nsubj |
| 16 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 starting | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seized | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seized | conj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack up | past | Edidor | Edidor's things | therefore property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | start off | past · progressive | Edidor not said here | for Inde | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | Ode | Edidor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Ode not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not is | past | Edidor | go property | tree rules |
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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