Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 65
He was a good dancer, drum-beater and singer, and these qualities, combined with his good looks and fine manly beauty, won him the admiration of many of the young Okuni girls.
Who acts: NYAMBI, qualities · What happens: be, combine, win, admire · To what, where: good dancer, qualities, admiration, NYAMBI, many young Okuni girls
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 (NYAMBI, qualities), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dancer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dancer | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dancer | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dancer | amod |
| 5 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beater | punct |
| 7 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beater | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 drum | punct |
| 9 | beater | beater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dancer | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 singer | cc |
| 11 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beater | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 won | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 won | cc |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 qualities | det |
| 15 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 won | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 combined | punct |
| 17 | combined | combine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 qualities | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 looks | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 looks | nmod:poss |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 looks | amod |
| 21 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 combined | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beauty | cc |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beauty | amod |
| 24 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beauty | amod |
| 25 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looks | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 qualities | punct |
| 27 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dancer | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 won | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 admiration | det |
| 30 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 won | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 girls | case |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 girls | amod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 girls | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 girls | det |
| 35 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 girls | amod |
| 36 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 girls | compound |
| 37 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 admiration | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dancer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | NYAMBI | a good dancer | drum beater and singer appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | combine | participle | this qualities not said here | with NYAMBI's good looks and fine manly beauty | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with look=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | win | past | this qualities | the admiration of the many young Okuni girls | NYAMBI | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary admiration=Theme | |||
| 4 | admire | the many young Okuni girls | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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