Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 62
I want to climb up and get that ripe rubber fruit, but cannot do so as you are so heavy.
Who acts: I, that, you · What happens: want, climb up, get, fruit, not do, be
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 climb | mark |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 climb | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 climb | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 fruit | nsubj |
| 9 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fruit | amod |
| 10 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fruit | compound |
| 11 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 do | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 climb | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 heavy | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 heavy | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 heavy | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 heavy | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 heavy | advmod |
| 22 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 do | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | climb up not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | fruit | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not do | can | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | you | heavy property | tree rules |
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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