Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 72
A long time ago, Chief Alankor was one of the head chiefs of Ikom, he was rich and powerful.
Who acts: long time, COCK · What happens: be · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long time, COCK), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chief | punct |
| 6 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 7 | Alankor | Alankor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chief | flat |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chiefs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chiefs | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chiefs | compound |
| 13 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ikom | case |
| 15 | Ikom | Ikom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 chiefs | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rich | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rich | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rich | cop |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 powerful | cc |
| 21 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rich | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a long time | one | of the head chiefs of Ikom | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | COCK | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | COCK not said here | 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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