Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 97
No one is allowed to come here, and if anyone does come, they never go back again.”
Who acts: one, anyone, steam · What happens: allow, come, not go back · To what, where: one
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 (one, anyone, steam), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 come | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | present · passive | no one | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | anyone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not go back | present | steam | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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