Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 95

Her father then warned her that she would never bear a child if she went on as she was doing, always changing and sleeping with so many different men.

Who acts: father, Omegha · What happens: warn, not bear, go on, do, change, sleep · To what, where: Omegha, child · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (father, Omegha), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warned	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 warned	advmod
4	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 warned	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 bear	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bear	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 bear	aux
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 bear	advmod
10	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 warned	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bear	obj
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bear	advcl
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 doing	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 doing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 doing	aux
20	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 went	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 changing	punct
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 changing	advmod
23	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 doing	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sleeping	cc
25	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 doing	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 men	case
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 many	advmod
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
29	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 men	amod
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sleeping	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	Omegha's father		Omegha	then		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not bear	would	Omegha	a child				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	go on a condition, not said to happen	past	Omegha					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past · progressive	Omegha					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	change	gerund	Omegha not said here				always property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sleep	gerund	Omegha not said here				with many different men	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 95