Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 5
On this account, he married thirty wives, but none of them had a child.
Who acts: Ndabu, none · What happens: marry, have · To what, where: thirty wives, account, child
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 (Ndabu, none), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 account | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 account | det |
| 3 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 account | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 wives | nummod |
| 8 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 married | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 11 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 had | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 none | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | Ndabu | thirty wives | this account | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | none of wives | a child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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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