Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 74
’Nyambi then bought the usual presents for the parents and collected the dowry, which he handed to Obim’s father and mother, and rubbed the girl with camwood.
Who acts: Nyambi, dowry · What happens: buy, collect, hand, rub · To what, where: usual presents, dowry, father, girl
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, dowry), 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 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nyambi | punct |
| 2 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bought | advmod |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 presents | det |
| 6 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 presents | amod |
| 7 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bought | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 parents | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 parents | det |
| 10 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bought | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 collected | cc |
| 12 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bought | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dowry | det |
| 14 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collected | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 handed | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 handed | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 handed | nsubj |
| 18 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dowry | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 father | case |
| 20 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Obim | case |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 handed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mother | cc |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 father | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rubbed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rubbed | cc |
| 27 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bought | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rubbed | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 camwood | case |
| 31 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 girl | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | Nyambi | the usual presents | then | for the parents | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent present=Theme for parent=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | collect | past | Nyambi not said here | the dowry | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dowry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hand | past | the dowry | Obim's father and mother | NYAMBI nsubj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to father=Destination | |||
| 4 | rub | past | Nyambi not said here | the girl | with camwood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent girl=Destination with camwood=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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