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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 58

It will not help you at all to leave me, as all the other hares have had the same thing done to them on account of the war ju-ju.

Who acts: sense, other hares · What happens: not help, leave, have, do, account · To what, where: you, all, me, same thing, men, account

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 (sense, other hares), 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

nsubjauxadvmodobjcaseoblmarkadvclobjpunctmarkdet:predetdetamodnsubjauxadvcldetamodobjaclcaseoblcaseoblcasedetnsubjcompoundpunctnmodpunctrootItPRONwillAUXnotPARThelpVERByouPRONatADPallDETtoPARTleaveVERBmePRON,PUNCTasSCONJallDETtheDETotherADJharesNOUNhaveAUXhadVERBtheDETsameADJthingNOUNdoneVERBtoADPthemPRONonADPaccountNOUNofADPtheDETwarNOUNjuNOUN-PUNCTjuNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 helpnsubj
2willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin4 helpaux
3notnotPARTPolarity=Neg4 helpadvmod
4helphelpVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs4 helpobj
6atatADP_7 allcase
7allallDETPronType=Tot4 helpobl
8totoPART_9 leavemark
9leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 helpadvcl
10meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 leaveobj
11,,PUNCT_18 hadpunct
12asasSCONJ_18 hadmark
13allallDETPronType=Tot16 haresdet:predet
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 haresdet
15otherotherADJDegree=Pos16 haresamod
16hareshareNOUNNumber=Plur18 hadnsubj
17havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 hadaux
18hadhaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part9 leaveadvcl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 thingdet
20samesameADJDegree=Pos21 thingamod
21thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing18 hadobj
22donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 thingacl
23totoADP_24 themcase
24themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs22 doneobl
25ononADP_26 accountcase
26accountaccountNOUNNumber=Sing22 doneobl
27ofofADP_32 jucase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 judet
29warwarNOUNNumber=Sing32 junsubj
30jujuNOUNNumber=Sing32 jucompound
31--PUNCT_32 jupunct
32jujuNOUNNumber=Sing26 accountnmod
33..PUNCT_4 helppunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not helpfuturesenseyouallvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2leaveto-infinitivesense not said heremevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3havepresent · perfectall other haresthe same thingvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4doparticiplethe same thing not said heremen = manaccount of the ju ju warvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5accountthe ju ju warnom account «communication 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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