Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 83

Chief Oga tried his best to make her drink, but Obim would not do so, and said she had merely come to hear what he might have to say.

Who acts: Chief, Obim · What happens: try, make, not do, say, come, hear · To what, where: best, drink · 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 (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	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
2	Oga	Oga	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Chief	flat
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 best	nmod:poss
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 tried	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 drink	nmod:poss
9	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 do	cc
12	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 do	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	conj
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	merely	merely	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hear	mark
25	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	xcomp
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 have	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hear	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 say	mark
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 have	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	Chief	chief's best		tree rules
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	Chief not said here	OBIM's drink		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=Product
3	not do	would	Obim			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Chief not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past	OBIM		merely property	tree rules
6	hear	to-infinitive	OBIM not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	have	might	chief		what obj	tree rules
8	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	chief not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 83