Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 33
As you are my only child, I do not want you to marry this stranger, but I want you to remain at Okuni with me.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, not want, marry, want, remain · To what, where: only child, you, stranger, Okuni
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., 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 (you, I), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 child | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 child | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 child | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 want | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 child | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 want | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 want | advmod |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 want | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 stranger | det |
| 16 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 want | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 want | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 want | nsubj |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 want | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 want | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 remain | mark |
| 23 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 want | xcomp |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 Okuni | case |
| 25 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 remain | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 remain | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | my only child | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | this stranger | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient | ||||
| 4 | want | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | Okuni | with me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at okuni=Location |
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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