Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 92

She advised ’Nyambi to pretend to go down river to sell some camwood and she would then allow the chief to come to her at night when ’Nyambi should come in and surprise them together.

Who acts: OBIM, chief, Nyambi · What happens: advise, pretend, go down, sell, allow, come · To what, where: Nyambi, river, camwood, chief, OBIM, presents

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, Nyambi), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 advised	nsubj
2	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Nyambi	punct
4	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 advised	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pretend	mark
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 advised	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pretend	xcomp
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sell	mark
12	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	advcl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 camwood	det
14	camwood	camwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sell	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 allow	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 allow	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 allow	aux
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 allow	advmod
19	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 advised	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chief	det
21	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 allow	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 allow	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 night	case
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 come	advmod
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
30	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	advcl
33	in	in	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 surprise	cc
35	surprise	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 come	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 surprise	obj
37	together	together	ADV	_	35 surprise	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 advised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	past	OBIM		Nyambi			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nyambi=Recipient
2	pretend	to-infinitive	OBIM not said here					tree rules
3	go down	to-infinitive	OBIM not said here	river			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient river=Extent
4	sell	to-infinitive	OBIM not said here	some camwood				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camwood=Theme
5	allow	would	OBIM	the chief		then		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer chief=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the chief not said here		OBIM	night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location
7	come in	should	Nyambi					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	surprise	present	Nyambi not said here	presents = present			together property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 92