Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 20
The yams are then left in the pot until the following morning.
What happens: leave, follow · To what, where: yams, pot
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 yams | det |
| 2 | yams | yam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 pot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pot | det |
| 8 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 9 | until | until | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | the yams | the pot | then; morning | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in pot=Location | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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