Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 6
After a time Edidor got tired of Ode and ran away to one of the Inde towns, leaving her children with her husband.
Who acts: Edidor · What happens: get, run away, leave · To what, where: one, children
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 4 | Edidor | Edidor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ode | case |
| 8 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tired | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ran | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 towns | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 towns | det |
| 16 | Inde | Inde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 towns | compound |
| 17 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaving | punct |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ran | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leaving | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 husband | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Edidor | time | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | run away | past | Edidor not said here | one of the Inde towns | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to one=Result | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | Edidor not said here | Edidor's children | with Edidor's husband | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Recipient with husband=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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