Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 53
She then cooked the food and put the half of the poison Ekum had given her for Ode into the food and gave it to Ekum to eat; he died the next day.
Who acts: Edidor, Ekum · What happens: cook, put, give, eat, die · To what, where: food, half, Edidor, 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cooked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cooked | advmod |
| 3 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 food | det |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cooked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cooked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 half | det |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 poison | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 poison | det |
| 12 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | nmod |
| 13 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 put | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 Ode | case |
| 18 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 food | det |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cooked | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Ekum | case |
| 26 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 gave | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 died | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 died | nsubj |
| 31 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cooked | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 day | det |
| 33 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 day | amod |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 died | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past | Edidor | the food | then | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Edidor not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | the half of the poison | Edidor | the food | for Ode; Ekum nsubj:pass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient she=Theme for ode=Asset | ||
| 4 | give | past | Edidor not said here | half | Ekum | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ekum=Recipient | |||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | Edidor not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | die | past | Ekum | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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