Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--carved Wooden Table Used in Ju-ju Dances From Inkum., sentence 4
1.--CHIEF INDOMA OF INKUM, SON OF THE POWERFUL CHIEF INDOMA, ABOUT WHOM SEVERAL STORIES ARE TOLD.
What happens: tell · To what, where: CHIEF INDOMA, 1 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 4 INDOMA | punct |
| 3 | CHIEF | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 INDOMA | amod |
| 4 | INDOMA | INDOMA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 TOLD | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 6 INKUM | case |
| 6 | INKUM | INKUM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 INDOMA | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 SON | punct |
| 8 | SON | SON | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 TOLD | obl |
| 9 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 13 INDOMA | case |
| 10 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 CHIEF | det |
| 11 | POWERFUL | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 CHIEF | amod |
| 12 | CHIEF | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 INDOMA | nmod:desc |
| 13 | INDOMA | INDOMA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 SON | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 TOLD | punct |
| 15 | ABOUT | about | ADV | _ | 16 WHOM | advmod |
| 16 | WHOM | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 TOLD | obl |
| 17 | SEVERAL | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 STORIES | amod |
| 18 | STORIES | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 TOLD | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | ARE | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 TOLD | aux:pass |
| 20 | TOLD | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 1 | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 1 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | CHIEF INDOMA of INKUM | SON of INDOMA the POWERFUL CHIEF obl; WHOM obl; SEVERAL STORIES nsubj:pass | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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