Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 99
He then went home and put on a fine cloth and had food before it was dark.
Who acts: chief, food · What happens: go, put, have, be · To what, where: fine cloth, food
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, food), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 cloth | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cloth | det |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cloth | amod |
| 10 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 dark | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dark | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dark | cop |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 had | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | chief | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | participle | chief not said here | a fine cloth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloth=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | past | chief not said here | food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | food | dark property | tree rules |
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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