Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 15
The indigo black markings last less than a week, and the Okuni people call it _ebim_.
Who acts: indigo black markings, Okuni people · What happens: last, call · To what, where: fungus · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (indigo black markings, Okuni people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 markings | det |
| 2 | indigo | indigo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 markings | compound |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 markings | amod |
| 4 | markings | marking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 last | nsubj |
| 5 | last | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 last | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 week | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 less | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 call | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 call | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 people | compound |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 call | nsubj |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 last | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 call | obj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 ebim | punct |
| 18 | ebim | ebim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 call | xcomp |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 call | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | the indigo black markings | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | present | the Okuni people | fungus | ebim xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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