Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 15
Did I not tell you that I would not take you to the place where I got my food from?
Who acts: I · What happens: do, not tell, not take, get · To what, where: you, place, food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 got | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 food | nmod:poss |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 got | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not take | would | I | you | the place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 4 | get | past | I | my food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
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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