Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 76

When the gun was fired off and Obim was declared to be ’Nyambi’s wife, Chief Oga was very vexed, and, although he wanted to speak to Obim, he dared not do so openly, as he thought the people might laugh at him if they saw him going after a woman who had only just been married, seeing that he had so many wives already himself.

Who acts: NYAMBI, people · What happens: fire off, declare, be, want, speak, do · To what, where: gun, Obim, wife, NYAMBI, woman, many wives · 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 (NYAMBI, people), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 fired	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gun	det
3	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fired	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fired	aux:pass
5	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fired	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 declared	cc
8	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 declared	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 declared	aux:pass
10	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fired	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	22 vexed	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 vexed	cop
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 wife	punct
14	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Nyambi	case
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vexed	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Chief	punct
18	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	appos
19	Oga	Oga	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Chief	flat
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 vexed	aux:pass
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 vexed	advmod
22	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 declared	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wanted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wanted	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wanted	punct
26	although	although	SCONJ	_	28 wanted	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fired	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 speak	mark
30	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wanted	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Obim	case
32	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 speak	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 do	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
35	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 do	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 dared	advmod
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wanted	parataxis
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 openly	advmod
39	openly	openly	ADV	_	37 do	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 thought	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 thought	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 thought	nsubj
43	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 do	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 people	det
45	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 laugh	nsubj
46	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 laugh	aux
47	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 thought	ccomp
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 laugh	obl
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 saw	mark
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 saw	nsubj
52	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 laugh	advcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 saw	obj
54	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 saw	xcomp
55	after	after	ADP	_	57 woman	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 woman	det
57	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 going	obl
58	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	63 married	nsubj:pass
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 married	aux
60	only	only	ADV	_	63 married	advmod
61	just	just	ADV	_	63 married	advmod
62	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	63 married	aux:pass
63	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 woman	acl:relcl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 seeing	punct
65	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 going	conj
66	that	that	SCONJ	_	68 had	mark
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 had	nsubj
68	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 seeing	ccomp
69	so	so	ADV	_	70 many	advmod
70	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 wives	amod
71	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 had	obj
72	already	already	ADV	_	73 himself	advmod
73	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	68 had	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fire off	past · passive		the gun				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past · passive		Obim				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	is	to-infinitive · passive		Nyambi's wife			vex property	tree rules
4	want	past	NYAMBI					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	NYAMBI not said here		Obim			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to obim=Co-Agent
6	do	past	NYAMBI				openly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	past	NYAMBI					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	laugh	might	the people				at NYAMBI	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	see a condition, not said to happen	past	people	NYAMBI				tree rules
10	go	gerund	NYAMBI not said here			after a woman		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	marry	past · perfect · passive		a woman				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
12	see	gerund	NYAMBI not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
13	have	past	NYAMBI	many wives			NYAMBI obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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 76

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 76