Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 125
But I will ask one favour of you, and that is, when I die you will all come and cry and mourn for me, as is usual.
Who acts: I, that, you · What happens: ask, be, die, come, cry, mourn · To what, where: one favour, you
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, that, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 favour | nummod |
| 6 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 favour | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 is | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 is | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 die | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 die | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 die | nsubj |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 is | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 die | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cry | cc |
| 22 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mourn | cc |
| 24 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 come | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 mourn | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 usual | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 usual | case |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 usual | cop |
| 30 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mourn | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | I | one favour of you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | be | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | future | you | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mourn | infinitive | you not said here | for me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for i=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | is | present | you not said here | usual property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | favour | you | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=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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