Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 96
His wife replied, “Only help me with the basket, and you shall then see what I have got.”
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: reply, help, see, get · To what, where: wife · 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 (wife, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 6 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 7 help | advmod |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 basket | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 basket | det |
| 11 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 got | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 see | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | husband's wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | help in a quote | infinitive | husband's wife = wife | with the basket | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary with basket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | shall | you | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | present · perfect | husband's wife = wife | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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