Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 62

My father catch one slave man, they call ’im Okon and he good man, so my father dash him them two goat.

Who acts: father, brothers · What happens: catch, call, man, dash · To what, where: one slave man, ’, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, brothers), 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	3 catch	nsubj
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 man	nummod
5	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	compound
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	conj
10	’	'	X	_	9 call	obj
11	im	im	X	_	10 ’	goeswith
12	Okon	Okon	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ’	flat
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 man	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 man	nsubj
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ’	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dash	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 dash	advmod
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dash	nsubj
21	dash	dash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 catch	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dash	obj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dash	obj
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 goat	nummod
25	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dash	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	infinitive	My father	one slave man		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	call	present	brothers = brother	’ and good man		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent '=Recipient
3	man		father			tree rules
4	dash	infinitive	my father	man	brothers = brother obj; two goat obj	tree rules

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 62