Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 85
Finding this plot had failed, the chief went again to the ju-ju man and told him that Obim had refused to drink the tombo.
Who acts: chief, Obim · What happens: find, fail, go, tell, refuse, not drink · To what, where: chief, tombo · 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 | Finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 failed | nsubj |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 plot | det |
| 3 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 failed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 failed | aux |
| 5 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 failed | parataxis |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 13 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ju | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ju | punct |
| 15 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 refused | mark |
| 21 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 refused | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 refused | aux |
| 23 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 told | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 drink | mark |
| 25 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 refused | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tombo | det |
| 27 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drink | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 failed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fail | past · perfect | this plot nsubj | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the chief | again | to the ju man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief not said here | chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | refuse | past · perfect | Obim | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not drink | to-infinitive | Obim not said here | the tombo | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tombo=Patient |
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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