Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 61

My father and father done die and him brother take all them thing; but he be big hunter man and no care them goat too much, so he done dash my father.

Who acts: brother, piccane · What happens: do, take, be, dash · To what, where: thing, big hunter man, father

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 (brother, piccane), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brother	nmod:poss
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 father	cc
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 die	amod
6	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 him	cc
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 father	conj
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	nsubj
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 thing	det
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 all	nmod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 man	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 man	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 man	nsubj
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 man	cop
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
19	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	compound
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 care	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 care	det
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 care	nmod
25	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	nmod
26	too	too	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 goat	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 done	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 done	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 done	nsubj
31	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 take	conj
32	dash	dash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 done	xcomp
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dash	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	participle				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	infinitive	My father piccane and father and done die's brother	all thing		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	is a	infinitive	piccane	big hunter man and no care die	goat nmod; no care die conj	tree rules
4	do	past	piccane			tree rules
5	dash	infinitive	piccane not said here	my father		vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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 61

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 61