Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 52

When the evening meal was over, the two hares retired for the night, but when his wife had put the lamp out, the hare told her that if she wanted to get up during the night or light the lamp she must wake him up first, as otherwise his war ju-ju would be spoilt.

Who acts: evening meal, hare, wife, lamp · What happens: be, retire, put out, tell, want, get up · To what, where: two hares, wife, hare, war ju ju · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening meal, hare, wife, lamp), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 over	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meal	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meal	compound
4	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 over	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
6	over	over	ADV	_	10 hares	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 over	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hares	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hares	nummod
10	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	retired	retire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hares	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retired	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 put	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
21	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hares	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lamp	det
23	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	21 put	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hare	det
27	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 put	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	iobj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 wanted	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 wanted	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wanted	nsubj
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 told	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 get	mark
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wanted	xcomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 get	compound:prt
37	during	during	ADP	_	39 night	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 night	det
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obl
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 light	cc
41	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 night	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 lamp	det
43	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 wake	nsubj
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wake	nsubj
45	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 wake	aux
46	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 get	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 wake	obj
48	up	up	ADP	_	46 wake	compound:prt
49	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	46 wake	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 spoilt	punct
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	60 spoilt	mark
52	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	60 spoilt	advmod
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 ju	nmod:poss
54	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ju	compound
55	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ju	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 ju	punct
57	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 spoilt	nsubj:pass
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 spoilt	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 spoilt	aux:pass
60	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 wanted	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the evening meal				over property	tree rules
2	retire	participle		the two hares not said here		night		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put out	past · perfect · passive		hare's wife			the lamp obj	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset lamp=Goal
4	tell speech: assert	past	the hare		wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	want a condition, not said to happen	past	wife					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	get up not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here			night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	wake up	must	the lamp	hare			wife nsubj; first property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	spoil	would · passive		hare's war ju ju			otherwise 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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 52

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 52