Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 48
Then Ekum again asked Edidor to marry him, and she agreed to do so, but said that before the ceremony took place she wanted to join his ju-ju, so that she might know everything and not be afraid.
Who acts: Ekum, Edidor, place · What happens: ask, marry, agree, do, say, take · To what, where: Edidor, Ekum, place, ceremony, ju ju, everything · 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, Edidor, place), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 marry | mark |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 marry | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 agreed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 agreed | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 agreed | nsubj |
| 12 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 agreed | xcomp |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 took | mark |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 ceremony | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ceremony | det |
| 22 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obl |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wanted | nsubj |
| 26 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 place | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 join | mark |
| 28 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wanted | xcomp |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 ju | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ju | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 ju | punct |
| 32 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 join | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 know | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 know | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 know | nsubj |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 know | aux |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 took | conj |
| 39 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 38 know | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 afraid | cc |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 afraid | advmod |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 afraid | cop |
| 43 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 everything | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Ekum | Edidor | then; again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent edidor=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ekum not said here | Ekum | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | Edidor | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Edidor not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | take | past | place | the ceremony | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme before ceremony=Destination | ||||
| 7 | want | past | Edidor | place not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | join not said to happen | to-infinitive | place not said here | Ekum's ju ju | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ju=Patient | ||||
| 9 | know | might | Edidor | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | not is | infinitive | Edidor not said here | afraid 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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