Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 64
There was once a fine strong man living at Okuni, whose name was ’Nyambi.
Who acts: fine strong man, Okuni · What happens: be, live, name · To what, where: Okuni
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 (fine strong man, Okuni), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 man | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Okuni | case |
| 10 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 living | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Okuni | appos |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ’ | cop |
| 15 | ’ | ' | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 13 name | appos |
| 16 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ’ | goeswith |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fine strong man | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | a fine strong man not said here | Okuni | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at okuni=Location | ||||
| 3 | name | Okuni | nom name «communication 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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