Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 36
Perceived typographical errors have been changed.
What happens: perceive, change · To what, where: typographical errors
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 | Perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | typographical | typographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 errors | amod |
| 3 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 changed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 changed | aux:pass |
| 6 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Perceived | ccomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | change | present · perfect · passive | typographical errors | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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