Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 108

Inkang Ezen told her husband that in three days’ time she would set out to find Ibanang, and that if she did not find her she would never return.

Who acts: Inkang, mother · What happens: tell, set out, find, not find, not return · To what, where: husband, Ibanang, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inkang, mother), 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	Inkang	Inkang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	Ezen	Ezen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Inkang	flat
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 set	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 time	nmod:poss
10	’	's	PART	_	9 days	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 set	aux
14	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 husband	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 set	advcl
18	Ibanang	Ibanang	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 return	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 return	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 return	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 find	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 find	advmod
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 return	advcl
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	obj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 return	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 return	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 return	advmod
31	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Inkang		Inkang's husband		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic
2	set out	would	Inkang	Inkang's husband		time	tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	Inkang not said here	Ibanang			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ibanang=Topic
4	not find a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Inkang	mother			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	not return	would	mother				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 108