Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 10
Curious designs are made all over the body, the lines running parallel.
Who acts: lines · What happens: make, run · To what, where: Curious designs, body, parallel
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lines), 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 | Curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 designs | amod |
| 2 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 body | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lines | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lines | det |
| 11 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 12 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 lines | acl |
| 13 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 running | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Curious designs | the body | the lines obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | the lines not said here | parallel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme parallel=Trajectory |
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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