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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 help | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 hares | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hares | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hares | amod |
| 16 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 had | aux |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 leave | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 thing | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 done | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 account | case |
| 26 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 ju | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ju | det |
| 29 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ju | nsubj |
| 30 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ju | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 ju | punct |
| 32 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 account | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | future | sense | you | all | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | sense not said here | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | all other hares | the same thing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | the same thing not said here | men = man | account of the ju ju war | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | account | the ju ju war | nom 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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