Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 3
Elili was the head wife and looked after the house, and for several years everything went well, until at last Elili became sick, and, after a short illness, died, and was buried.
Who acts: Elili, head wife, everything, last Elili · What happens: be, look, go, become, die, bury · To what, where: head wife
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elili, head wife, everything, last Elili), 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 | Elili | Elili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wife | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | compound |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 years | amod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 became | punct |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 became | mark |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 Elili | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Elili | amod |
| 23 | Elili | Elili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 became | nsubj |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | parataxis |
| 25 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 became | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 died | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 died | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 and | punct |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 illness | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 illness | det |
| 31 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 illness | amod |
| 32 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 died | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 illness | punct |
| 34 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 became | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 buried | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 buried | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 buried | aux:pass |
| 38 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 looked | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Elili | the head wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the head wife | after the house | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | everything | year | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | become | past | last Elili | sick property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die | past | last Elili not said here | after a short illness | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | bury | past · passive | the head wife not said here | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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