Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 81
She was a fine well-made woman, and the chief was so fond of her that he would not have any other wives.
Who acts: INKANG, chief, BECAME · What happens: be, make, not have · To what, where: other wives
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (INKANG, chief, BECAME), 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 | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fine | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 made | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fond | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fond | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fond | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fond | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 fond | advmod |
| 15 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fine | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fond | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 have | advmod |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fond | advcl |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 wives | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wives | amod |
| 25 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | INKANG | made woman parataxis; fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the chief | of INKANG; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not have | would | BECAME | any other wives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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