Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 30
Let me go and consult the ju-ju man on your behalf, and he will tell me what you should do in order to get well again.
Who acts: you, me, ju · What happens: let, go, consult, tell, do, get · To what, where: me, ju ju man, behalf, order · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, ju), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 consult | cc |
| 5 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 7 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ju | punct |
| 9 | ju | ju | X | _ | 10 man | compound |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consult | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 behalf | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 behalf | nmod:poss |
| 13 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tell | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 do | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 order | case |
| 25 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 get | mark |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 do | advcl |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 get | advmod |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 get | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | consult | infinitive | me not said here | the ju ju man | your behalf | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | future | ju | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do | should | you | order | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | again | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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