Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 2
3.--SKULLS IN HEAD CHIEF’S HOUSE AT ABRAGHA.
To what, where: HEAD HOUSE
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 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 SKULLS | nummod |
| 2 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 3 SKULLS | punct |
| 3 | SKULLS | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 HOUSE | nsubj |
| 4 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 5 HEAD | case |
| 5 | HEAD | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 HOUSE | compound |
| 6 | CHIEF | CHIEF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 HOUSE | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’S | 's | PART | _ | 6 CHIEF | case |
| 8 | HOUSE | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | AT | at | ADP | _ | 10 ABRAGHA | case |
| 10 | ABRAGHA | ABRAGHA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 HOUSE | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 HOUSE | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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