Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 1
Bendega is a town on the right bank of the Afi River, which runs into the Cross River opposite to Abaragha.
Who acts: Bendega, Afi River · What happens: be, run · To what, where: town, right bank, River opposite
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bendega, Afi River), 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 | Bendega | Bendega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 town | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 town | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bank | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bank | amod |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 town | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 River | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 River | det |
| 11 | Afi | Afi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 River | compound |
| 12 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bank | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 runs | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 runs | nsubj |
| 15 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 River | acl:relcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 opposite | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 opposite | det |
| 18 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 River | compound |
| 19 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 opposite | compound |
| 20 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 runs | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Abaragha | case |
| 22 | Abaragha | Abaragha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 opposite | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 town | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bendega | a town | the right bank of the Afi River | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run | present | the Afi River | into the River opposite to Abaragha result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into opposite=Result |
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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