Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 78

That night Obim told her husband of the advances made to her by the chief, and they agreed not to take any notice, but to be very careful for the future.

Who acts: Obim, husband, advances · What happens: tell, make, agree, not take, be · To what, where: OBIM, notice · 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, husband, advances), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl:unmarked
3	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 advances	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 advances	det
9	advances	advance	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 husband	nmod
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 chief	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chief	det
15	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 agreed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 agreed	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 agreed	nsubj
19	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 take	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 take	mark
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 agreed	xcomp
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 notice	det
24	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 careful	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 careful	cc
27	to	to	PART	_	30 careful	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 careful	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 careful	advmod
30	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 agreed	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 future	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 future	det
33	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 careful	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Obim			night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	past	OBIM's husband of the advances		OBIM		by the chief	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	agree speech: agree	past	advances = advance					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not take not said to happen	to-infinitive	advances = advance not said here	any notice				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	advances = advance not said here				for the future; careful property	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 78

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 78