Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 96
During the whole of that time there was not a single death in any of the Munchi or Domi towns where I stayed.
Who acts: I · What happens: stay
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 (I), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 whole | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whole | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whole | obl |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 death | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 death | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 death | amod |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 any | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 death | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 towns | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 towns | det |
| 17 | Munchi | Munchi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 towns | compound |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 Domi | cc |
| 19 | Domi | Domi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Munchi | conj |
| 20 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 any | nmod |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 stayed | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 stayed | nsubj |
| 23 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 towns | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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