Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 79
The next day Chief Oga consulted a ju-ju man as to the best way to turn Obim’s heart, so that she would hate ’Nyambi and come to him.
Who acts: Chief, OBIM · What happens: consult, turn, hate, come · To what, where: ju man, heart, Nyambi, chief
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 (Chief, OBIM), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consulted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 consulted | nsubj |
| 5 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chief | flat |
| 6 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 8 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ju | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ju | punct |
| 10 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consulted | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 consulted | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 turn | mark |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 way | acl |
| 19 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Obim | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hate | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 hate | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 hate | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hate | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 hate | aux |
| 27 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 consulted | parataxis |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Nyambi | punct |
| 29 | Nyambi | Nyambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 hate | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 come | cc |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 hate | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 come | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | Chief | a ju man | day | as the best way | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent man=Theme as way=Value | ||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | Obim's heart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hate | would | OBIM | Nyambi | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nyambi=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | OBIM not said here | chief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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