Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 51

The hare said, “If you do this, and then throw me up in the air as high as you can, so that my body will fall into the pit on the sharp stakes, then I shall die in great pain, and in three days’ time my body will be much swollen and will then be better worth eating.”

Who acts: hare, you, body · What happens: say, do, throw up, fall, die, be · To what, where: this, hare, air, pit · 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 (hare, you, body), 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 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct
6	If	if	SCONJ	_	8 do	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 throw	advcl
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 do	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 throw	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 throw	advmod
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 throw	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 throw	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 air	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 air	det
18	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 high	advmod
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 throw	advcl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 can	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 can	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 high	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fall	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 fall	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 body	nmod:poss
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fall	aux
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 throw	advcl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 pit	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pit	det
33	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	37 stakes	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stakes	det
36	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 stakes	amod
37	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fall	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 die	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 die	advmod
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 die	nsubj
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 die	aux
42	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 throw	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 pain	case
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 pain	amod
45	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 die	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 swollen	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 swollen	cc
48	in	in	ADP	_	52 time	case
49	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 days	nummod
50	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 time	nmod:poss
51	’	's	PART	_	50 days	case
52	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 swollen	obl
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 body	nmod:poss
54	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 swollen	nsubj
55	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 swollen	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 swollen	cop
57	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 swollen	amod
58	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 better	cc
60	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 better	aux
61	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	63 better	advmod
62	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 better	cop
63	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	58 swollen	conj
64	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 better	amod
65	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	64 worth	xcomp
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
67	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the hare					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
3	throw up in a quote	infinitive		the hare = hare	the air	then		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	fall in a quote	future	my body		the pit		on the sharp stakes	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stake=Location
5	die in a quote	shall	the hare = hare			then	in great pain	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in pain=Attribute
6	is in a quote	future	my body			time	swollen property	tree rules
7	is in a quote	future	my body not said here			then	good property	tree rules
8	eat in a quote	gerund	my body not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 51