Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 2
In this town many years ago there lived two young men called Abang and Oga ’Ngigor.
Who acts: two young men · What happens: live, call · To what, where: town, Ngigor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two young men), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 town | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 town | det |
| 3 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | ccomp |
| 13 | Abang | Abang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ngigor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Oga | cc |
| 15 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Abang | conj |
| 16 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 Abang | case |
| 17 | Ngigor | Ngigor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | this town; there | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | two young men | Abang and Oga's Ngigor | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ngigor=Recipient |
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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