Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 82
_--It is not the one who makes the fire to boil the koko yams[3] who is most likely to eat them.
Who acts: share, one, fire, koko yams · What happens: not be, make, boil, be, eat · To what, where: one, fire, koko yams, yams
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (share, one, fire, koko yams), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 one | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 boil | mark |
| 13 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 yams | det |
| 15 | koko | koko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yams | compound |
| 16 | yams | yam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boil | obj |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 3 | punct |
| 18 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 yams | appos |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 3 | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 likely | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 likely | cop |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 likely | advmod |
| 23 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 yams | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 likely | xcomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | share | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | the one | the fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | boil | to-infinitive | the fire not said here | the koko yams | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yam=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the koko yams | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | the koko yams not said here | yams = yam | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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