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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 86

Here shall I stay in the town until Chief Alobi and the hunters return, when I will tell them that you have broken their hunting law and you will be killed.”

Who acts: I, hunters, you · What happens: stay, return, tell, break, kill · To what, where: town, hunters, hunting law, you · 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 (I, hunters, 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

advmodauxnsubjcasedetoblcaseoblflatccdetnsubjconjpunctadvmodnsubjauxconjiobjmarknsubjauxadvclnmod:posscompoundobjccnsubj:passauxaux:passconjpunctpunctrootHereADVshallAUXIPRONstayVERBinADPtheDETtownNOUNuntilADPChiefPROPNAlobiPROPNandCCONJtheDEThuntersNOUNreturnVERB,PUNCTwhenADVIPRONwillAUXtellVERBthemPRONthatSCONJyouPRONhaveAUXbrokenVERBtheirPRONhuntingNOUNlawNOUNandCCONJyouPRONwillAUXbeAUXkilledVERB.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerehereADVPronType=Dem4 stayadvmod
2shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin4 stayaux
3IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 staynsubj
4staystayVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5ininADP_7 towncase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 towndet
7towntownNOUNNumber=Sing4 stayobl
8untiluntilADP_9 Chiefcase
9ChiefChiefPROPNNumber=Sing4 stayobl
10AlobiAlobiPROPNNumber=Sing9 Chiefflat
11andandCCONJ_14 returncc
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 huntersdet
13huntershunterNOUNNumber=Plur14 returnnsubj
14returnreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 stayconj
15,,PUNCT_19 tellpunct
16whenwhenADVPronType=Int19 telladvmod
17IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs19 tellnsubj
18willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin19 tellaux
19telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf4 stayconj
20themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 telliobj
21thatthatSCONJ_24 brokenmark
22youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs24 brokennsubj
23havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 brokenaux
24brokenbreakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 telladvcl
25theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 lawnmod:poss
26huntinghuntingNOUNNumber=Sing27 lawcompound
27lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing24 brokenobj
28andandCCONJ_32 killedcc
29youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs32 killednsubj:pass
30willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin32 killedaux
31bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf32 killedaux:pass
32killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 brokenconj
33..PUNCT_19 tellpunct
34”"PUNCT_19 tellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stayshallIthe town; hereuntil Chiefvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
2returnpresentthe huntersvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3tell speech: assertfutureIhunters = huntervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4breakpresent · perfectyouhunters's hunting lawvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient
5killfuture · passiveyouvn 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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