Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 5
_District Commissioner, Southern Nigeria_.
To what, where: _ District Commissioner
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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Commissioner | compound |
| 2 | District | District | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Commissioner | compound |
| 3 | Commissioner | Commissioner | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nigeria | punct |
| 5 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 6 Nigeria | flat |
| 6 | Nigeria | Nigeria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Commissioner | appos |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nigeria | punct |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Commissioner | 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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