Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 67

At last, when ’Nyambi was about twenty-five years of age, he met a girl at a big dance, to whom he took a great fancy, and whom he wished to marry.

Who acts: Nyambi · What happens: be, meet, take, wish, marry · To what, where: five years, girl, big dance, great fancy

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 when	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 years	punct
6	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 years	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 years	cop
8	about	about	ADV	_	11 five	advmod
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 five	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 twenty	punct
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 when	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 age	case
14	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 years	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 years	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 girl	det
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 dance	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dance	det
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dance	amod
23	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 whom	case
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 took	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 met	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fancy	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fancy	amod
31	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whom	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 whom	cc
34	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 took	parataxis
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wished	nsubj
36	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 whom	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 marry	mark
38	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 wished	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 when	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nyambi	five years		of age		tree rules
2	meet	past	NYAMBI	a girl	a big dance			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent
3	take	past	NYAMBI	a great fancy			whom obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to whom=Destination
4	wish	past	NYAMBI					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	NYAMBI not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 67

The tree

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 67