Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 5
We must not call one another by our proper names, as I do not want the people to know who we really are.”
Who acts: We, I, people, our · What happens: not call, not want, know, be, name · To what, where: one, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, I, people, our), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 call | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 call | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 call | advmod |
| 4 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 call | obj |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | fixed |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 names | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 names | nmod:poss |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 names | amod |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 call | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 want | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 want | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 want | advmod |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 call | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 want | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 know | mark |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 want | xcomp |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 know | ccomp |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 are | nsubj |
| 23 | really | really | ADV | _ | 24 are | advmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 who | cop |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call | must | We | one | by our proper names | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | I | the people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | the people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | name | our | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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