Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 72
Obim, however, was obstinate, and absolutely declined to have anything to do with the chief, so at last her parents consented to her marriage with ’Nyambi.
Who acts: Obim, last parents · What happens: be, decline, not have, do, consent, marry · To what, where: anything
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 (Obim, last parents), 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 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 obstinate | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Obim | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 obstinate | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obstinate | cop |
| 6 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 declined | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 declined | cc |
| 9 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 10 declined | advmod |
| 10 | declined | decline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 obstinate | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 declined | xcomp |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 anything | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 chief | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chief | det |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 consented | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 consented | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 parents | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 parents | amod |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 parents | nmod:poss |
| 24 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 consented | nsubj |
| 25 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 declined | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 consented | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Nyambi | case |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Nyambi | punct |
| 31 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 marriage | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obstinate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Obim | however, obstinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decline | participle | absolutely property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not have | to-infinitive | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | anything not said here | with the chief | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | consent | past | OBIM's last parents | to OBIM's marriage with Nyambi | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=Theme | ||||
| 6 | marry | OBIM | with Nyambi | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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