Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 43
If you help me, when the war is over, I will bring all the heads of the men we kill to you as tribute.
Who acts: you, war, I, heads · What happens: help, be, bring, kill · To what, where: me, you
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, war, I, heads), 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 help | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | advcl |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 over | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 over | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 over | cop |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 help | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | aux |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 heads | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heads | det |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 men | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kill | obl |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 tribute | case |
| 26 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kill | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help a condition, not said to happen | present | you | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the war | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | future | I | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kill | present | all heads | you | of the men; as tribute; we nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent of man=Initial_Location |
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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