Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 84
Oga then tried again to persuade Obim to leave her husband and go to him, but Obim refused as before.
Who acts: Oga, Obim · What happens: try, persuade, leave, go, refuse · To what, where: Obim, husband, 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 (Oga, 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 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tried | advmod |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 tried | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 persuade | mark |
| 6 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 persuade | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 persuade | xcomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 refused | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 refused | cc |
| 18 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 refused | nsubj |
| 19 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 before | case |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 19 refused | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Oga | then; again | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | Oga not said here | Obim | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent obim=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Obim not said here | OBIM's husband | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | Obim not said here | chief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | refuse | past | Obim | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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