Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 121
The way they are obtained for food is simple and may be worth mentioning.
Who acts: way · What happens: obtain, be, mention · To what, where: bats
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 (way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 simple | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 obtained | aux:pass |
| 5 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 way | acl:relcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obtained | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 simple | cop |
| 9 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 worth | cc |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 worth | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 worth | cop |
| 13 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 simple | conj |
| 14 | mentioning | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 worth | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 simple | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | present · passive | the way not said here | bats = bat | for food | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for food=Asset | |||
| 2 | is | present | the way | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | may | the way not said here | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mention speech: other | gerund | the way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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