Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 7
She went about from one man to another as she had done before she was married, and attended all the dances and plays until at last Ode heard where she was.
Who acts: Edidor · What happens: go about, do, marry, attend, play, hear · To what, where: Edidor, dances, last Ode · 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 man | nummod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 another | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 man | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 married | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 married | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 done | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 attended | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 attended | cc |
| 19 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 dances | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dances | det |
| 22 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 attended | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 plays | cc |
| 24 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 heard | mark |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Ode | case |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Ode | amod |
| 28 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 heard | obl |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 plays | advcl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 was | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 was | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 heard | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go about | past | Edidor | from one man to another; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | Edidor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | Edidor | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | attend | past | Edidor not said here | all dances | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dance=Goal | ||||
| 5 | play | present | Edidor not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hear | past | Edidor not said here | last Ode | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | be | past | Edidor | vn exist-47.1 «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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