Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 107
It is also extremely doubtful whether brass rods, which are mentioned so frequently, existed at the date of many of the stories.
Who acts: translation · What happens: be, mention, exist · To what, where: brass rods, date
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 (translation), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 doubtful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doubtful | cop |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 doubtful | advmod |
| 4 | extremely | extremely | ADV | _ | 5 doubtful | advmod |
| 5 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 rods | case |
| 7 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rods | compound |
| 8 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 doubtful | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mentioned | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 12 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rods | acl:relcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 frequently | advmod |
| 14 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 12 mentioned | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 existed | punct |
| 16 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mentioned | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 date | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 date | det |
| 19 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 existed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 many | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 date | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 stories | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stories | det |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 many | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 doubtful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | translation | whether brass rods; doubtful, extremely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present · passive | brass rods | frequently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | exist | participle | the date of many of the stories | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at date=Location |
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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