Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 37
Elilli said that she was also very jealous of Iya Agagim having so many children, and that as she was a witch herself she would like to join with Chief Elullo and kill the whole family.
Who acts: Elilli, that · What happens: say, be, have, like, join, kill · To what, where: many children, whole family · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elilli, that), 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 | Elilli | Elilli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 jealous | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 jealous | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jealous | cop |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 jealous | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 jealous | advmod |
| 8 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Iya | case |
| 10 | Iya | Iya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 jealous | obl |
| 11 | Agagim | Agagim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Iya | flat |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | advcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 children | amod |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 having | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 like | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 like | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 like | nsubj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 witch | case |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 witch | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 witch | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 witch | det |
| 23 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 that | nmod |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 witch | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 like | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 like | aux |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 join | mark |
| 29 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 like | xcomp |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Chief | case |
| 31 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 join | obl |
| 32 | Elullo | Elullo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Chief | flat |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 kill | cc |
| 34 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 join | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 family | det |
| 36 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 family | amod |
| 37 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kill | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Elilli | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Elilli | of Iya; jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | Elilli not said here | many children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Elilli | as a witch; Elilli nmod:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | like | would | that | Elilli nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | join not said to happen | to-infinitive | that not said here | with Chief | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with chief=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | kill | infinitive | that not said here | the whole family | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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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