Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 7
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
What happens: publish · To what, where: LONDON
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 | LONDON | london | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 PUBLISHED | punct |
| 3 | PUBLISHED | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 LONDON | acl |
| 4 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 8 Institute | case |
| 5 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Institute | det |
| 6 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Anthropological | amod |
| 7 | Anthropological | Anthropological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Institute | compound |
| 8 | Institute | Institute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 PUBLISHED | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Britain | case |
| 10 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Britain | flat |
| 11 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Institute | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Ireland | cc |
| 13 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Institute | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 LONDON | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | participle | LONDON not said here | by the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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