Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 56

For example, a native will come to make a complaint that certain goods belonging to him have been stolen and he wants to have the thief punished.

Who acts: native, certain goods, object, thief · What happens: come, make, belong, steal, want, have · To what, where: complaint, object, certain goods, thief

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 (native, certain goods, object, thief), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 native	det
5	native	native	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 complaint	det
11	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 stolen	obj
13	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 goods	amod
14	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 stolen	nsubj:pass
15	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 goods	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 belonging	obl
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 stolen	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 stolen	aux:pass
20	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 complaint	acl:relcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wants	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wants	nsubj
23	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 have	mark
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wants	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thief	det
27	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
28	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 have	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	future	a native			for example	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	a native not said here	a complaint			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset complaint=Product
3	belong	gerund	certain goods not said here		object		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	steal	present · perfect · passive		certain goods		a complaint obj	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Theme
5	want	present	object				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	object not said here	the thief			tree rules
7	punish	participle	the thief not said here				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 56

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Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 56