Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 76

The people of Ikom therefore warned their children never to go by themselves to the farms unless they knew the road very well indeed, as if they took the wrong path and went to the town where the wooden drum lived, they would be swallowed up and would disappear for ever.

Who acts: people, wooden drum · What happens: warn, not go, know, take, go, live · To what, where: children, farms, road, wrong path, town, people · 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 (people, wooden drum), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 warned	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Ikom	case
4	Ikom	Ikom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 warned	advmod
6	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 children	nmod:poss
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 warned	obj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 go	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 warned	ccomp
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 go	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 farms	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 farms	det
16	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 go	obl
17	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	19 knew	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knew	nsubj
19	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 road	det
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knew	obj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 well	advmod
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 indeed	advmod
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 knew	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 took	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 took	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 took	nsubj
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 warned	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 path	det
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 path	amod
32	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 took	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 town	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 town	det
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 lived	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 drum	det
40	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 drum	amod
41	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lived	nsubj
42	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 town	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 swallowed	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 swallowed	nsubj:pass
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 swallowed	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 swallowed	aux:pass
47	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 took	parataxis
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 swallowed	compound:prt
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 disappear	cc
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 disappear	aux
51	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 swallowed	conj
52	for	for	ADP	_	53 ever	case
53	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	51 disappear	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	the people of Ikom		people's children		therefore property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go	to-infinitive				the farms	by people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location
3	know a condition, not said to happen	past	people	the road			indeed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus
4	take a condition, not said to happen	past	people	the wrong path				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
5	go	past	people not said here			the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
6	live	past	the wooden drum					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	swallow up	would · passive		people				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	disappear	would						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 76