Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 42
Ode was buried by his relations, but Edidor only mourned a very short time and then ran off to Inde, where she joined her lover.
Who acts: relations, Edidor · What happens: bury, mourn, run off, join · To what, where: Ode, Inde, lover
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 (relations, 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 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | aux:pass |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 relations | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 relations | nmod:poss |
| 6 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mourned | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 mourned | cc |
| 9 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 mourned | nsubj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 mourned | advmod |
| 11 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 short | advmod |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mourned | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 ran | advmod |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mourned | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 ran | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Inde | case |
| 21 | Inde | Inde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 joined | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 joined | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 joined | nsubj |
| 25 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 Inde | acl:relcl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lover | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 joined | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · passive | Ode's relations | Ode | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mourn | past | Edidor | time | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | Edidor not said here | Inde | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to inde=Result | |||
| 4 | join | past | Edidor | Edidor's lover | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=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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