Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 18
_--Koko yams are cooked for several hours.
What happens: cook · To what, where: _
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: 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | Koko | Koko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 yams | compound |
| 4 | yams | yam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cooked | aux:pass |
| 6 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 hours | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hours | amod |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cooked | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present · passive | _ | hour | Koko yams nsubj:pass | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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