Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 21
The ordinary yam is cooked and eaten at once.
What happens: cook, eat · To what, where: ordinary yam
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 | 3 yam | det |
| 2 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 yam | amod |
| 3 | yam | yam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cooked | aux:pass |
| 5 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 eaten | cc |
| 7 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cooked | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 eaten | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present · passive | the ordinary yam | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | eat | participle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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