Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 36
If you refuse to do this, I will go outside into the bush and hang myself.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: refuse, not do, go, hang · To what, where: this, bush, myself
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 refuse | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refuse | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 refuse | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bush | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bush | det |
| 14 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hang | cc |
| 16 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hang | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hang | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | you not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | future | I | the bush | outside property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | hang | infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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