Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 100
You shall stay at home and I will look after you and the child who is soon to be born.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: stay, look, be · To what, where: home, child
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stay | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | aux |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stay | conj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 child | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 you | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 born | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 born | cop |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 born | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 born | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 born | aux:pass |
| 20 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 child | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | shall | You | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | future | I | after you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present · passive | I not said here | the child | bear, soon property | 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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