Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 5
Ode had three children by Edidor, the first-born being a boy, and the other two girls.
Who acts: Ode · What happens: have, bear, be · To what, where: three children, born boy
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 (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 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 children | nummod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Edidor | case |
| 6 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boy | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 born | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 first | punct |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 boy | amod |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 boy | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Edidor | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 girls | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 girls | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girls | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girls | amod |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 girls | nummod |
| 20 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ode | three children | by Edidor; the other two girls parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 2 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | the born boy | 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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