Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 89
There was once an Inkum woman named Omegha, who was considered very good-looking, but, curiously enough, no man had ever wanted to marry her, although she was very popular and went about from one man to another.
Who acts: Inkum woman, man, Omegha · What happens: be, name, consider, look, want, marry · To what, where: Inkum woman, Omegha
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inkum woman, man, Omegha), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | compound |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 woman | acl |
| 8 | Omegha | Omegha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 considered | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 considered | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 considered | aux:pass |
| 12 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Omegha | acl |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 good | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 considered | xcomp |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 good | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wanted | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 wanted | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wanted | punct |
| 20 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 27 wanted | advmod |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 curiously | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wanted | punct |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wanted | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wanted | aux |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 wanted | advmod |
| 27 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 was | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 marry | mark |
| 29 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 wanted | xcomp |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 marry | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 popular | punct |
| 32 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 36 popular | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 popular | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 popular | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 popular | advmod |
| 36 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 marry | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 went | cc |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 popular | conj |
| 39 | about | about | ADV | _ | 38 went | advmod |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 man | case |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 man | nummod |
| 42 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 another | case |
| 44 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 went | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Inkum woman | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a Inkum woman not said here | Omegha xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | consider | past · passive | Omegha | good property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | want | past · perfect | no man | ever | curiously property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||
| 6 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | no man not said here | Omegha | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Omegha | popular property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go about | past | Omegha not said here | from one man; to another; about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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