Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 109
I will not receive any present from you; I do not want to kill you, but I intend to take one of two things from your body, and, if you refuse, I shall kill you at once.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not receive, not want, kill, intend, take, refuse · To what, where: present, you, one
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. 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 | 4 receive | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 receive | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 receive | advmod |
| 4 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 present | det |
| 6 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 receive | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 receive | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 want | advmod |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 receive | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 intend | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 intend | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 intend | nsubj |
| 20 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 receive | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 intend | xcomp |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 things | case |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 things | nummod |
| 26 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 one | nmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 body | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 body | nmod:poss |
| 29 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 things | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 kill | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 kill | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 and | punct |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 refuse | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 refuse | nsubj |
| 35 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 kill | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 refuse | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 kill | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 kill | aux |
| 39 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 receive | conj |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 kill | obj |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 once | case |
| 42 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 39 kill | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 receive | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not receive | future | I | any present | from you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent present=Theme from you=Source | |||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | intend | present | I | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | one of two things from your body | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 6 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | kill | shall | I | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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