Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 34
The girl replied, “In our country we have no such custom.”
Who acts: girl, we · What happens: reply, have · To what, where: such custom, country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 6 | In | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 country | nmod:poss |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 custom | det |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 custom | amod |
| 13 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the girl | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | we | no such custom | our country | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient |
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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