Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 83
When we get to the town, you must not tell anyone that I am not your mother, or I will punish you severely.”
Who acts: we, you, I · What happens: get, not tell, not be, punish · To what, where: anyone, mother, you · 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, you, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 tell | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 mother | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mother | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 mother | advmod |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 punish | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 punish | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 punish | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 punish | aux |
| 23 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 punish | obj |
| 25 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 23 punish | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | we | to the town result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | must | you | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | your mother | I nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | punish | future | I | you | severely property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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