Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 94

Inkang therefore said to his wife, “What have you put in the basket to make it so heavy that you want me to help you down with it?

Who acts: Inkang, wife · What happens: say, put, make, want, help down · To what, where: wife, basket, Inkang · 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 (Inkang, wife), 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	Inkang	Inkang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 have	obj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 basket	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 basket	det
15	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 heavy	advmod
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 make	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 want	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
23	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 heavy	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 want	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 help	mark
26	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 want	xcomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 help	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 help	compound:prt
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 help	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Inkang		husband's wife		therefore property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	put in a quote	present · perfect	Inkang not said here			the basket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in basket=Destination
3	make in a quote	to-infinitive	Inkang not said here	basket			heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	want in a quote	present	husband's wife = wife	Inkang				tree rules
5	help down not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Inkang not said here		husband's wife = wife		with basket	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary with it=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, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 94