Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 32
[11] The four streams mentioned in this story are still called by the same names, and are well known to the inhabitants of Okuni.
Who acts: same names · What happens: mention, call, know · To what, where: four streams, story, 11 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (same names), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 11 | punct |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 called | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 11 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 streams | det |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 streams | nummod |
| 6 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 11 | nmod |
| 7 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 streams | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mentioned | obl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 called | advmod |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 names | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 names | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 names | amod |
| 17 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 called | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 known | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 known | cc |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 known | aux:pass |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 known | advmod |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 called | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 inhabitants | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 inhabitants | det |
| 25 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 known | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Okuni | case |
| 27 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 inhabitants | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | participle | the four streams not said here | this story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | present · passive | the same names | 11 the four streams | still | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | know | present · passive | the same names not said here | to the inhabitants of Okuni; well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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