Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 66

If I kill him, I can have any man I fancy and make plenty of money, as all the young men want me, and are willing to pay, whereas now I have to do all the housework, and work hard on the farm, and Leku does not ‘dash’ me anything.”

Who acts: I, young men, Leku · What happens: kill, have, fancy, make, want, be · To what, where: Chief, man, plenty, me, housework

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young men, Leku), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 kill	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 kill	nsubj
3	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kill	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fancy	nsubj
12	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 make	cc
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fancy	conj
15	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 money	case
17	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plenty	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 want	mark
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 men	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 men	amod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	parataxis
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 willing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 willing	cc
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 willing	cop
29	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 want	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pay	mark
31	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 willing	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
33	whereas	whereas	ADV	_	36 have	advmod
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 have	advmod
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
36	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 have	xcomp
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 housework	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 housework	det
41	housework	housework	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 do	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 work	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 work	cc
44	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	parataxis
45	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 work	advmod
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 farm	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 farm	det
48	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 work	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dash	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 dash	cc
51	Leku	Leku	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 dash	nsubj
52	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 dash	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 dash	advmod
54	‘	'	PUNCT	_	55 dash	punct
55	dash	dash	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 anything	appos
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	55 dash	punct
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 dash	nmod
58	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 have	parataxis
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	kill a condition, not said to happen	present	I	Chief			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	have	can	I	any man		anything parataxis	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	fancy	present	I	any man not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	make	present	I not said here	plenty of money			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plenty=Product
5	want	present	all young men	me			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
6	is	present	all young men not said here			willing property	tree rules
7	pay	to-infinitive	all young men not said here				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	have	present	I		now	whereas property	tree rules
9	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	all housework			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent housework=Eventuality
10	work	present				on the farm; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme
11	not dash	present · do-support	Leku	me			tree rules

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, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 66

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 66