Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 50
When he had finished, Edidor was so frightened that she ran away and left Ekum.
Who acts: Ekum, Edidor · What happens: finish, be, run away, leave · To what, where: Ekum
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 frightened | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 6 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 frightened | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 frightened | advmod |
| 9 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 ran | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | advcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | conj |
| 16 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Ekum | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Edidor | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | Edidor | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | Edidor not said here | Ekum | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ekum=Theme |
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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