Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 22
The marriage customs vary considerably in different parts of the district.
Who acts: marriage customs · What happens: vary · To what, where: different parts
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 (marriage customs), 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 | 3 customs | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 customs | compound |
| 3 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vary | nsubj |
| 4 | vary | vary | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 4 vary | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 parts | case |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 parts | amod |
| 8 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vary | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 district | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 district | det |
| 11 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parts | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vary | present | the marriage customs | different parts of the district | considerably property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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