Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 26

I do not, however, propose to enter into details, but merely to indicate what constitutes a binding form of marriage in this part of the country according to native custom.

Who acts: I · What happens: not propose, enter, indicate, constitute, accord, form · To what, where: details, binding form, part, marriage

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 propose	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 propose	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 propose	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 not	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 propose	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 enter	mark
9	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 propose	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 details	case
11	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 enter	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 indicate	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 indicate	cc
14	merely	merely	ADV	_	16 indicate	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 indicate	mark
16	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 propose	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 constitutes	nsubj
18	constitutes	constitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 indicate	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 form	det
20	binding	binding	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 form	compound
21	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 constitutes	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 marriage	case
23	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 form	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 part	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 part	det
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 constitutes	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 country	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 country	det
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 part	nmod
30	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 custom	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 according	fixed
32	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 custom	amod
33	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 country	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 propose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not propose	present · do-support	I			however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	enter	to-infinitive	I not said here		details		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into detail=Initial_Location
3	indicate	to-infinitive	I not said here			merely property	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
4	constitute	present		a binding form of marriage	this part of the country accord native custom	what nsubj	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme form=Pivot
5	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	form			marriage			nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 26