Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 2
He also had five wives, four of whom had two children each, but the fifth wife whose name was Agbor had no children.
Who acts: Osewo, name, fifth wife, Agbor · What happens: have, be, name · To what, where: five wives, two children, Agbor, children
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Osewo, name, fifth wife, Agbor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wives | nummod |
| 5 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 four | punct |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wives | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 four | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 whom | conj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 children | nummod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 17 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wife | amod |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 name | nmod:poss |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Agbor | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Agbor | cop |
| 22 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | appos |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 children | det |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Osewo | five wives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Osewo not said here | two children | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Agbor's name | Agbor | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the fifth wife | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 5 | name | Agbor | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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