Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 93
Obim also told her husband that she hoped he would cut a certain part off the chief’s body, which would punish him properly and prevent his troubling her for the future.
Who acts: Obim, husband · What happens: tell, hope, cut, punish, prevent, trouble · To what, where: husband, certain part, chief, OBIM · 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 (Obim, husband), 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 | Obim | Obim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 hoped | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hoped | nsubj |
| 8 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | advcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cut | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cut | aux |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hoped | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 chief | case |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 punish | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 punish | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 punish | aux |
| 23 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cut | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 punish | obj |
| 25 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 23 punish | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 prevent | cc |
| 27 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 punish | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 prevent | obj |
| 29 | troubling | trouble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 prevent | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 troubling | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 future | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 future | det |
| 33 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 troubling | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Obim | OBIM's husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hope | past | OBIM | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut | would | husband | a certain part | off the chief's body | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent part=Patient off body=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | punish | would | chief | which nsubj; properly property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | prevent | infinitive | chief | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer his=Theme | |||||
| 6 | trouble | gerund | OBIM | for the future | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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