Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 30
Nothing will content me but the head of your baby, which I intend to give to my Ekpinon ju-ju.”
Who acts: Nothing, head · What happens: content, intend, give · To what, where: me, Ekpinon ju ju
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, head), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 content | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 content | aux |
| 3 | content | content | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 content | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 intend | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 intend | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 baby | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 baby | nmod:poss |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 intend | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 intend | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 intend | nsubj |
| 14 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 content | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 intend | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ju | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ju | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Ekpinon | Ekpinon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 ju | compound |
| 20 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ju | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ju | punct |
| 22 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 content | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | future | Nothing | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | intend | present | the head of your baby | which obj; I nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the head of your baby not said here | my Ekpinon ju ju | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ju=Recipient |
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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