Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 46
For some little time after this Edidor went about with different men, but Ekum always found her out, and when she returned to him he would tell her what she had been doing and the name of the man she had been with.
Who acts: Edidor, Ekum · What happens: go about, find out, return, tell, do, name · To what, where: Edidor, Ekum, man · 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, Ekum), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Edidor | det |
| 7 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 15 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | nsubj |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 found | advmod |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 found | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 tell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tell | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 returned | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 returned | nsubj |
| 24 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 tell | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 returned | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tell | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 tell | aux |
| 29 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tell | iobj |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 35 doing | obj |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 doing | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 doing | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 doing | aux |
| 35 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 tell | ccomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 name | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 name | det |
| 38 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 doing | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 man | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 man | det |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 name | nmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 with | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 with | aux |
| 44 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 with | cop |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 man | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go about | past | this Edidor | time | with different men; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with man=Instrument | |||
| 2 | find out | past | Ekum | Edidor | always property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 3 | return | past | Edidor | Ekum | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | would | Ekum | Edidor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect · progressive | Edidor | what obj; the name of the man conj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | name | the man | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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