Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 19
[7] You will meet with much opposition where you are going, and you will not bring back what you are going to seek.”
Who acts: You · What happens: meet, go, not bring back, seek · To what, where: 7
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 (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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 meet | punct |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 meet | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 7 | punct |
| 4 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 meet | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 meet | aux |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 opposition | case |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 opposition | amod |
| 9 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meet | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 going | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 opposition | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bring | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 bring | advmod |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 meet | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 bring | advmod |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 going | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 bring | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 seek | mark |
| 26 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 going | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 meet | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | future | You | 7 | with much opposition | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with opposition=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not bring back | future | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | what nsubj; you nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | seek | to-infinitive | vn hunt-35.1 «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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