Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 54
Before Ekum was dead, Edidor ran back to her father’s house at Okuni.
Who acts: Ekum, dead Edidor · What happens: be, run back
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, dead 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 dead | mark |
| 2 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dead | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Edidor | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 6 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Okuni | case |
| 15 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ekum | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run back | past | dead Edidor | to Edidor's father's house at Okuni result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result |
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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