Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 75
Now you are half-way home, and, if you do not kill me, you will be found out.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not kill, find out · To what, where: half way, me, you
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 (you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 way | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 way | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 way | cop |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 way | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 half | punct |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 way | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 kill | advmod |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 found | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 found | aux:pass |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 way | acl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 found | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | half way | now | home property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not kill a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find out | future · passive | you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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