Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 42

I want you to make them strong and so that they will not receive any wounds from their enemies.

Who acts: I, you, preparations · What happens: want, make, not receive · To what, where: you, preparations, wounds, enemies

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 (I, you, preparations), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 receive	cc
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 receive	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 receive	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 receive	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 receive	advmod
14	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	conj
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 wounds	det
16	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 receive	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 enemies	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 enemies	nmod:poss
19	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 receive	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	you			tree rules
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	preparations = preparation		strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	not receive	future	preparations = preparation	any wounds	preparations's enemies		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wound=Theme from enemy=Source

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/7/42/

🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 42