Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 64

One be mammie piccane they call ’im Awa, she fine too much, when she done grow I marry her proper and take her brother Abassi for make my head boy.

Who acts: brothers, Okon · What happens: be, call, fine, do, grow, marry · To what, where: One mammie piccane, ’, much, I, Okon, brother · 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 (brothers, Okon), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 piccane	nummod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 piccane	cop
3	mammie	mammie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piccane	compound
4	piccane	piccane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	’	'	X	_	6 call	obj
8	im	im	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Awa	amod
9	Awa	Awa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ’	goeswith
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fine	nsubj
12	fine	fine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 call	conj
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fine	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 done	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj
18	done	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	parataxis
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 done	ccomp
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 grow	obj
21	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 grow	xcomp
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 marry	obj
23	proper	properly	ADV	_	21 marry	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 marry	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brother	nmod:poss
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
28	Abassi	Abassi	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 brother	appos
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 make	case
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	advcl
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 boy	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 boy	compound
33	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 make	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		One mammie piccane			tree rules
2	call	present	brothers = brother	’ im Awa			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent '=Recipient
3	fine	past	Okon	much			vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient
4	do	past	Okon				tree rules
5	grow	infinitive	Okon not said here	I			tree rules
6	marry	infinitive	Okon not said here	Okon		properly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	take	infinitive	Okon not said here		Okon's brother		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Destination
8	make	infinitive	Okon not said here	my head boy			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boy=Product

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 64

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 64