Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 47
Okpa was a ju-ju man living at Okuni many years ago, and the name of his ju-ju was ’Nda.
Who acts: Okpa, ju man · What happens: be, live, name · To what, where: ju man, ju ju
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 (Okpa, ju man), 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 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 4 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ju | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ju | punct |
| 6 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | compound |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 man | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 10 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 years | compound |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 living | obl |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 12 years | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 name | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ju | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ju | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ju | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ju | punct |
| 22 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ’ | cop |
| 24 | ’ | ' | X | ExtPos=PROPN | 7 man | appos |
| 25 | Nda | Nda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ’ | goeswith |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Okpa | a ju man and the name of Okpa's ju ju | the name of Okpa's ju ju conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | a ju man and the name of Okpa's ju ju not said here | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | Okpa's ju ju | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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