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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 99

Then her mother said to her “Now that your father is dead, you must not go about as you did before, as there are only two of us.

Who acts: mother, father, Omegha, two · What happens: say, be, not go about, do · To what, where: Omegha · 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 (mother, father, Omegha, two), 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

advmodnmod:possnsubjcaseoblpunctadvmodmarknmod:possnsubjcopccomppunctnsubjauxadvmodccompadvmodmarknsubjadvcladvmodpunctmarkexplparataxisadvmodnsubjcasenmodpunctrootThenADVherPRONmotherNOUNsaidVERBtoADPherPRON“PUNCTNowADVthatSCONJyourPRONfatherNOUNisAUXdeadADJ,PUNCTyouPRONmustAUXnotPARTgoVERBaboutADVasSCONJyouPRONdidVERBbeforeADV,PUNCTasSCONJtherePRONareVERBonlyADVtwoNUMofADPusPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 saidadvmod
2herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 mothernmod:poss
3mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing4 saidnsubj
4saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_6 hercase
6hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 saidobl
7“"PUNCT_18 gopunct
8NownowADVPronType=Dem18 goadvmod
9thatthatSCONJ_13 deadmark
10youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 fathernmod:poss
11fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing13 deadnsubj
12isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 deadcop
13deaddeadADJDegree=Pos8 Nowccomp
14,,PUNCT_8 Nowpunct
15youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs18 gonsubj
16mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin18 goaux
17notnotPARTPolarity=Neg18 goadvmod
18gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf4 saidccomp
19aboutaboutADV_18 goadvmod
20asasSCONJ_22 didmark
21youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs22 didnsubj
22diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 goadvcl
23beforebeforeADV_22 didadvmod
24,,PUNCT_27 arepunct
25asasSCONJ_27 aremark
26theretherePRONPronType=Dem27 areexpl
27arebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 goparataxis
28onlyonlyADV_29 twoadvmod
29twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card27 arensubj
30ofofADP_31 uscase
31uswePRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs29 twonmod
32..PUNCT_4 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastOmegha's motherOmeghathenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
2is in a quotepresentyour fatherdead propertytree rules
3not go about in a quotemustOmeghanowabout propertyvn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4do in a quotepastOmeghabefore propertyvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5be in a quotepresenttwo of ustherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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