Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 73

Then Obim and ’Nyambi took an oath that, when they were married, they would never part from one another, and they would both try to help each other and upset any ju-ju that Chief Oga might make against them, as they knew him to be a most revengeful man.

Who acts: Obim, parents, Chief · What happens: take, marry, not part, try, help, make · To what, where: oath, parents, each, ju ju, chief, revengeful man · 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 (Obim, parents, Chief), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 took	advmod
2	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Nyambi	cc
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 Nyambi	punct
5	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Obim	conj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 oath	det
8	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 married	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 married	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 married	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 married	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 oath	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 part	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 part	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 part	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 part	advmod
19	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 took	obl
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 try	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 try	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 try	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 try	aux
27	both	both	ADV	_	28 try	advmod
28	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 took	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 help	mark
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 try	xcomp
31	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	30 help	obj
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 each	fixed
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 upset	cc
34	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 other	conj
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 ju	det
36	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ju	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 ju	punct
38	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 help	obj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 make	obj
40	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 make	nsubj
41	Oga	Oga	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Chief	flat
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 make	aux
43	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ju	acl
44	against	against	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 make	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 knew	punct
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 knew	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 knew	nsubj
49	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 make	parataxis
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 knew	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	56 man	mark
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 man	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 man	det
54	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	55 revengeful	advmod
55	revengeful	revengeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 man	amod
56	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 knew	ccomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Obim and Nyambi	a oath	then	from one	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent oath=Theme from one=Initial_Location
2	marry	past · passive		parents = parent		a oath obj	tree rules
3	not part	would	parents = parent				tree rules
4	try	would	parents = parent			both property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	parents = parent not said here	each		any ju ju obj	tree rules
6	make	might	Chief	any ju ju		against parents = parent	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Product
7	know	past	parents = parent	chief			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8	is a	to-infinitive		a revengeful man			tree rules

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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 73