Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 83
And it is not always the ones you love most who will care most for you.
Who acts: share, you · What happens: not be, love, care · To what, where: ones, most
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, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ones | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ones | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ones | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ones | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 ones | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ones | det |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nsubj |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ones | acl:relcl |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 care | advmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 care | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 care | aux |
| 13 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 love | ccomp |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 care | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 most | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | share | the ones | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love | present | you | the ones not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | care | future | most | for you; who nsubj | tree rules |
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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