Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 85

Now, Chief Leku was very fond of Achor, and wanted her badly, so he gave in, and told her that his hunting dogs had carried the bundles for him.

Who acts: Chief · What happens: be, want, give in, tell, carry · To what, where: Achor, hunting dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Chief), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fond	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fond	nsubj
4	Leku	Leku	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Chief	flat
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 fond	advmod
7	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Achor	case
9	Achor	Achor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wanted	cc
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	parataxis
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	obj
14	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 wanted	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 gave	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wanted	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	18 gave	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 carried	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dogs	nmod:poss
26	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dogs	compound
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 carried	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 carried	aux
29	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 told	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bundles	det
31	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 carried	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carried	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Chief			now	of Achor; fond property	tree rules
2	want	past		Achor			badly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
3	give in	past	Chief					vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past			Achor			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	carry	past · perfect · passive		Chief's hunting dogs			for Chief; the bundles obj	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bundle=Value

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 85