Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 89
Then Igiri said, “How I do wish that this mushroom would turn into a boy baby, which we want so badly.”
Who acts: Igiri, mushroom, we · What happens: say, wish, turn, want · To what, where: boy baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Igiri, mushroom, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Igiri | Igiri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 6 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 wish | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | aux |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 turn | mark |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 mushroom | det |
| 12 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 turn | aux |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 baby | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 baby | det |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 baby | compound |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 want | obj |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 want | nsubj |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 baby | acl:relcl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 badly | advmod |
| 24 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 turn | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Igiri | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | Igiri | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | would | this mushroom | a boy baby | badly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into baby=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | we | a boy baby | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=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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