Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 57
Many of them, including chiefs, wanted to marry her, but Akoba refused them all, as she made a lot of money out of them, and would not bind herself down to one man.
Who acts: Many, Akoba · What happens: want, marry, refuse, make, not bind down · To what, where: Akoba, eyes, lot
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 (Many, Akoba), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Many | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanted | punct |
| 5 | including | including | ADP | _ | 6 chiefs | case |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chiefs | punct |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 marry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 refused | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 refused | cc |
| 14 | Akoba | Akoba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 refused | nsubj |
| 15 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wanted | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 refused | obj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 refused | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lot | det |
| 23 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 money | case |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lot | nmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bind | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bind | cc |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 bind | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 bind | advmod |
| 33 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | advcl |
| 34 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 bind | obj |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 bind | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 man | case |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 man | nummod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bind | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Many of eyes | chiefs nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Many of eyes not said here | Akoba | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | refuse | past | Akoba | eyes = eye | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Akoba | a lot of money | out eyes = eye | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product | |||
| 5 | not bind down | would | Akoba not said here | Akoba | to one man | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient to man=Co-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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