Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 52
Then Edidor made up her mind to kill Ekum, so she went to his ju-ju pot which he always looked into when he wanted to know where she had gone or what she was doing, and broke it.
Who acts: Edidor, Ekum · What happens: make up, kill, go, look, want, know · To what, where: mind, Ekum, ju pot · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 9 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kill | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 pot | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ju | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ju | punct |
| 18 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pot | compound |
| 19 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 looked | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 looked | advmod |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pot | acl:relcl |
| 24 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 27 wanted | mark |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 wanted | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 wanted | nsubj |
| 27 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 looked | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 know | mark |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wanted | xcomp |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 gone | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gone | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 gone | aux |
| 33 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 know | ccomp |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 what | cc |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 gone | conj |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 doing | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 doing | aux |
| 38 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 what | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 broke | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 broke | cc |
| 41 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 broke | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | Edidor | Edidor's mind | then | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | Edidor not said here | Ekum | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ekum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Edidor | Ekum's ju pot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Ekum | Ekum's ju pot | always property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Attribute | |||
| 5 | want | past | Ekum | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ekum not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | go | past · perfect | Edidor | what conj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | do | past · progressive | Edidor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | break | past | Edidor not said here | mind | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 10 | mind | Edidor | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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