Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 44
If you have any complaint to make or wish to be paid, you had better settle with the dead body.”
Who acts: you · What happens: have, make, wish, pay · To what, where: complaint, better settle
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | advcl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 complaint | det |
| 5 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 complaint | acl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 wish | cc |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 paid | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 paid | aux:pass |
| 12 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 wish | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 settle | amod |
| 17 | settle | settle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 body | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 body | det |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 body | amod |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 settle | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | any complaint | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | any complaint not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | wish | infinitive | you not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | have | past | you | better settle | with the dead body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent settle=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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