Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 44
He then killed a goat, and they had a big feast, and he told all the people that Edidor was going to be his wife.
Who acts: Ekum, friends, people · What happens: kill, have, tell, go, be · To what, where: goat, big feast, people, wife · 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 (Ekum, friends, people), 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 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 killed | advmod |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 feast | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feast | amod |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 people | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 going | nsubj |
| 21 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wife | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wife | cop |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Ekum | a goat | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | friends = friend | a big feast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Ekum | all people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | all people | Edidor nsubj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | all people not said here | Ekum's wife | Ekum nmod:poss | 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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