Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 100
This would, however, involve a larger expenditure of time than I have at my disposal.
Who acts: This, I · What happens: involve, have, expend · To what, where: larger expenditure, time, disposal
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 involve | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 involve | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 would | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 involve | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | involve | involve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 expenditure | det |
| 8 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 expenditure | amod |
| 9 | expenditure | expenditure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 involve | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 expenditure | nmod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | acl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 disposal | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 disposal | nmod:poss |
| 17 | disposal | disposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 involve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | involve | would | This | a larger expenditure of time | however property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | time not said here | my disposal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient | |||
| 3 | expend | time | nom expenditure «possession transitive»: of=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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