Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 13

One day Ogbaja’s mother Nara said she wished to go with him to gather some fruit, but he told her that she could not go, as the witches were dangerous men and might kill her.

Who acts: mother, Ogbaja, witches · What happens: say, wish, go, gather, tell, not go · To what, where: fruit, 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 (mother, Ogbaja, witches), 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	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
3	Ogbaja	Ogbaja	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Ogbaja	case
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
6	Nara	Nara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mother	appos
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wished	nsubj
9	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wished	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 gather	mark
15	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	advcl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 fruit	det
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gather	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 go	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 go	advmod
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 men	punct
29	as	as	ADP	_	34 men	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 witches	det
31	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 men	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 men	cop
33	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 men	amod
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 go	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 kill	cc
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 kill	aux
37	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 kill	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ogbaja's mother			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish	past	mother					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here				with Ogbaja	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
4	gather	to-infinitive	mother not said here	some fruit				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Ogbaja		mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not go not said to happen	could	mother					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the witches				as dangerous men	tree rules
8	kill	might	mother not said here	mother				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 13

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 13