Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 6
OCCASIONAL PAPERS, No. 3.
To what, where: OCCASIONAL PAPERS
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 | OCCASIONAL | occasional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 PAPERS | amod |
| 2 | PAPERS | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 No. | punct |
| 4 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 2 PAPERS | appos |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 No. | flat |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 PAPERS | 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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