Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 82
When Obim arrived, the chief offered her some of the tombo to drink, but she refused to touch it.
Who acts: Obim, chief · What happens: arrive, offer, drink, refuse, not touch · To what, where: tombo, OBIM
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, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 offered | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offered | nsubj |
| 7 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 offered | iobj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 tombo | det |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tombo | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tombo | det |
| 12 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drink | mark |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tombo | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 refused | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 offered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 touch | mark |
| 20 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 refused | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 touch | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Obim | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | the chief | some tombo | OBIM | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal tombo=Theme | |||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | some tombo not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | refuse | past | OBIM | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not touch | to-infinitive | OBIM not said here | tombo | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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