Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 28

I will paint one of your children every day and show it to you, but you must first of all build me a house, into which you must put all your children, with plenty of food and firewood.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: paint, show, build, put · To what, where: one, colouring, you, house, me, children

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, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 paint	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 paint	aux
3	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 paint	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 children	nmod:poss
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paint	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 show	cc
11	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 paint	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 show	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 show	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 build	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 build	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 build	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 build	aux
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 build	advmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 first	obl
22	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 paint	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 build	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 build	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 put	obl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 put	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux
31	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 paint	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 children	det:predet
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 children	nmod:poss
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 put	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 plenty	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 plenty	case
37	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 food	case
39	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 plenty	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 firewood	cc
41	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 food	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paint	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 paint	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	paint	future	I	one of your children		day		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Destination
2	show	present	I not said here	colouring	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient
3	build	must	you	a house	me		first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary house=Product
4	put	must	you		your children		with plenty of food and firewood; which obl	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent child=Goal

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, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 28