Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 117
It is perhaps noteworthy that these people, who are pure cannibals, all file their teeth to a sharp point.
Who acts: author, people · What happens: be, file · To what, where: pure cannibals, teeth, sharp point
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 (author, people), 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 | 4 noteworthy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 noteworthy | cop |
| 3 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 noteworthy | advmod |
| 4 | noteworthy | noteworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 people | mark |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 noteworthy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cannibals | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 cannibals | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cannibals | cop |
| 11 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cannibals | amod |
| 12 | cannibals | cannibal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 people | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 file | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 file | advmod |
| 15 | file | file | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 noteworthy | parataxis |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 file | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 point | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 point | det |
| 20 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 point | amod |
| 21 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 file | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noteworthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | author | this people and pure cannibals obl; noteworthy, perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this people and pure cannibals | pure cannibals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | file | present | people's teeth | a sharp point | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme to point=Destination |
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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