Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 24
They are, however, sufficient for the wants of the natives in the dry season.
Who acts: shelters · What happens: be, want · To what, where: natives
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 (shelters), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sufficient | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sufficient | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 sufficient | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 wants | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wants | det |
| 9 | wants | want | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sufficient | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 natives | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 natives | det |
| 12 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wants | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 season | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 season | det |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 season | amod |
| 16 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 natives | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sufficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | shelters = shelter | for the wants of the natives in the dry season; however, sufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | the natives in the dry season | nom want «state transitive»: of=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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