Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 34
If, however, she satisfied the man, he would then have her circumcized by her parents, and the man would touch her with camwood.
Who acts: girl, man · What happens: satisfy, have, circumciz, touch · To what, where: man, girl
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 (girl, man), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 satisfied | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 satisfied | nsubj |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 have | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | circumcized | circumciz | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 her | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 parents | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 parents | nmod:poss |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 circumcized | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 touch | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 touch | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 touch | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 touch | aux |
| 24 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 touch | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 camwood | case |
| 27 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 touch | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy a condition, not said to happen | past | girl | the man | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | have | would | man | girl | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient | |||
| 3 | circumciz | participle | by girl's parents | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | touch | would | the man | girl | with camwood | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with camwood=Instrument |
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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