Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 2
IKOM FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
To what, where: FOLK STORIES
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: 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 | IKOM | IKOM | PROPN | _ | 3 STORIES | nsubj |
| 2 | FOLK | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 STORIES | compound |
| 3 | STORIES | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | FROM | from | ADP | _ | 6 NIGERIA | case |
| 5 | SOUTHERN | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 NIGERIA | amod |
| 6 | NIGERIA | NIGERIA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 STORIES | nmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 STORIES | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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