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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 4

Agbor bore all the ill-treatment she received without complaining, and although her husband gave her no money (rods) or food, she remained faithful to him.

Who acts: Agbor, chief, husband · What happens: bear, receive, complain, give, remain · To what, where: ill treatment, money, chief, Agbor

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 (Agbor, chief, husband), 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

nsubjdet:predetdetamodpunctobjnsubjacl:relclmarkadvclpunctccmarknmod:possnsubjconjiobjdetobjpunctappospunctccconjpunctnsubjconjxcompcaseoblpunctrootAgborPROPNboreVERBallDETtheDETillADJ-PUNCTtreatmentNOUNshePRONreceivedVERBwithoutSCONJcomplainingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJalthoughSCONJherPRONhusbandNOUNgaveVERBherPRONnoDETmoneyNOUN(PUNCTrodsNOUN)PUNCTorCCONJfoodNOUN,PUNCTshePRONremainedVERBfaithfulADJtoADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AgborAgborPROPNNumber=Sing2 borensubj
2borebearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3allallDETPronType=Tot7 treatmentdet:predet
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 treatmentdet
5illillADJDegree=Pos7 treatmentamod
6--PUNCT_5 illpunct
7treatmenttreatmentNOUNNumber=Sing2 boreobj
8sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 receivednsubj
9receivedreceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 treatmentacl:relcl
10withoutwithoutSCONJ_11 complainingmark
11complainingcomplainVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 receivedadvcl
12,,PUNCT_17 gavepunct
13andandCCONJ_17 gavecc
14althoughalthoughSCONJ_17 gavemark
15herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 husbandnmod:poss
16husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing17 gavensubj
17gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 boreconj
18hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 gaveiobj
19nonoDETPronType=Neg20 moneydet
20moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing17 gaveobj
21((PUNCT_22 rodspunct
22rodsrodNOUNNumber=Plur20 moneyappos
23))PUNCT_22 rodspunct
24ororCCONJ_25 foodcc
25foodfoodNOUNNumber=Sing20 moneyconj
26,,PUNCT_28 remainedpunct
27sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 remainednsubj
28remainedremainVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 boreconj
29faithfulfaithfulADJDegree=Pos28 remainedxcomp
30totoADP_31 himcase
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 remainedobl
32..PUNCT_2 borepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bearpastAgborall ill treatmentvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Patient
2receivepastchiefall ill treatment not said herevn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme
3complain speech: othergerundchief not said herevn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4givepastchief's husbandno money or foodchiefvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient money=Theme
5remainpastchiefAgborfaithful propertyvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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