Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 13
Is there anyone present who does not agree?”
What happens: be, not agree · To what, where: anyone present · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3. 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 present | cop |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Is | expl |
| 3 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 present | compound |
| 4 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 agree | csubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 agree | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 agree | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 agree | advmod |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | anyone present | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not agree speech: agree | present · do-support | who nsubj | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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