Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 39

The woman refused to do so, saying that the hunting law was so strong that, if they broke it, they would certainly be killed.

Who acts: woman, hunting law, women · What happens: refuse, not do, say, be, break, kill · To what, where: LAW, women · Speech: someone speaks here

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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, hunting law, women), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refused	nsubj
3	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 refused	xcomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 do	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 strong	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 law	det
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 law	compound
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 strong	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 strong	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saying	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 killed	mark
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 broke	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 broke	nsubj
20	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 killed	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 broke	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 broke	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 killed	nsubj:pass
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 killed	aux
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	27 killed	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 killed	aux:pass
27	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 strong	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the woman			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not do	to-infinitive	the woman not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the hunting law		strong property	tree rules
5	break a condition, not said to happen	past	women = woman	LAW		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
6	kill	would · passive		women = woman	certainly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 39