Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 28
For example, the mother would receive a piece of cloth, and the father a piece of cloth and two bottles of gin.
Who acts: mother, father · What happens: receive, piece · To what, where: piece
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 (mother, father), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 receive | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 receive | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 receive | aux |
| 7 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 piece | det |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 receive | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cloth | case |
| 11 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 piece | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 piece | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 piece | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 receive | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cloth | case |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bottles | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 bottles | nummod |
| 22 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cloth | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gin | case |
| 24 | gin | gin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bottles | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | would | the mother | a piece of cloth | for example | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | piece | the father | of cloth and two bottles of gin | tree rules |
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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