Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 34
Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.
What happens: show, slope · To what, where: Italics
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 | Italics | italic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shown | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shown | aux:pass |
| 3 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 shown | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 shown | punct |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 sloping | punct |
| 7 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 shown | advcl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 sloping | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | Italics | thus property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | slope | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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