Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 51
Ekum, however, looked into his ju-ju pot and saw at once where she was, so he sent a messenger, who seized her and brought her back.
Who acts: Ekum, Edidor, messenger · What happens: look, see, be, send, seize, bring back · To what, where: messenger, Edidor
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, messenger), 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 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ekum | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pot | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ju | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ju | punct |
| 10 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pot | compound |
| 11 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 saw | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 was | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 was | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 once | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sent | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 sent | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sent | nsubj |
| 22 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 messenger | det |
| 24 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sent | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seized | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 seized | nsubj |
| 27 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 messenger | acl:relcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seized | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 brought | cc |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seized | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | obj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 brought | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Ekum | into Ekum's ju pot; however property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into pot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Ekum not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | be | past | Edidor | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send | past | Ekum | a messenger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seize | past | a messenger | Edidor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring back | past | a messenger not said here | Edidor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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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