Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 55

But that will not surprise anyone who knows the native well, as he can never come to the point at once, but must always first beat about the bush.

Who acts: that, object · What happens: not surprise, know, not come, beat · To what, where: anyone, native, point

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 (that, object), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 surprise	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 surprise	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 surprise	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 surprise	advmod
5	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 surprise	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 anyone	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 native	det
10	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knows	obj
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 knows	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 come	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 come	advmod
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 surprise	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 point	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 point	det
20	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 beat	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 beat	cc
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 beat	aux
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 beat	advmod
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 beat	advmod
28	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 surprise	parataxis
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 bush	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bush	det
31	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not surprise	future	that	anyone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer
2	know	present		the native		who nsubj; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer native=Stimulus
3	not come	can	object		the point		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to point=Initial_Location
4	beat	must				about the bush; always, first property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about bush=Location

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 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 55