Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 55
When the Inde people found that Ekum was dead, they at once knew that Edidor must have killed him, as she had run away.
Who acts: Inde people, Ekum, people, Edidor · What happens: find, be, know, kill, run away · To what, where: Edidor · 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 (Inde people, Ekum, people, 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 3 | Inde | Inde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 people | compound |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knew | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dead | mark |
| 7 | Ekum | Ekum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 knew | obl |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 16 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 killed | aux |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 killed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 run | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 run | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 run | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 run | aux |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 killed | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 run | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Inde people | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Ekum | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | kill | must · perfect · passive | Edidor | Ekum obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | ||||
| 5 | run away | past · perfect | Edidor | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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