Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 82
Igiri was quite faithful to her husband, and never went with other men.
Who acts: Igiri · What happens: be, not go
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 (Igiri), 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 | Igiri | Igiri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 faithful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 faithful | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 faithful | advmod |
| 4 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 faithful | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 faithful | parataxis |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 faithful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Igiri | to INKANG's husband; faithful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not go | past | with other men | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary |
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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