Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 29
Told by Abassi of Inkum.--[E.D., 11.8.10.]
What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 Abassi | case |
| 3 | Abassi | Abassi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Told | obl:agent |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Inkum | case |
| 5 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Abassi | nmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Abassi | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 Abassi | punct |
| 8 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 E.D | punct |
| 9 | E.D | E.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Abassi | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 E.D | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 11.8.10 | punct |
| 12 | 11.8.10 | 11.8.10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 E.D | list |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 E.D | punct |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 9 E.D | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | Abassi of Inkum obl:agent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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