Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--carved Wooden Table Used in Ju-ju Dances From Inkum., sentence 2
3.--STONE JU-JU AND CARVED WOODEN PILLAR: EGBO HOUSE IN BACKGROUND.]
What happens: carve · To what, where: WOODEN PILLAR, 3
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Fig. 2.--carved Wooden Table Used in Ju-ju Dances From Inkum.. 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 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 3 STONE | punct |
| 3 | STONE | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 3 | appos |
| 4 | JU | JU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 STONE | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 JU | punct |
| 6 | JU | JU | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 JU | flat |
| 7 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 CARVED | cc |
| 8 | CARVED | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 JU | conj |
| 9 | WOODEN | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 PILLAR | amod |
| 10 | PILLAR | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 CARVED | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 HOUSE | punct |
| 12 | EGBO | EGBO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 HOUSE | compound |
| 13 | HOUSE | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 PILLAR | appos |
| 14 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 15 BACKGROUND | case |
| 15 | BACKGROUND | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 HOUSE | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 3 | punct |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 1 3 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past | WOODEN PILLAR | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme |
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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