Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 5
LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, W.C.
To what, where: LONDON
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 | LONDON | london | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 HARRISON | punct |
| 3 | HARRISON | harrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 LONDON | conj |
| 4 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 SONS | cc |
| 5 | SONS | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 HARRISON | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 PRINTERS | punct |
| 7 | PRINTERS | printer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 SONS | conj |
| 8 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 9 ORDINARY | case |
| 9 | ORDINARY | ordinary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 PRINTERS | nmod |
| 10 | TO | to | ADP | _ | 12 MAJESTY | case |
| 11 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 MAJESTY | nmod:poss |
| 12 | MAJESTY | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 SONS | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 LANE | punct |
| 14 | ST. | ST. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 MARTIN | nmod:desc |
| 15 | MARTIN | MARTIN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 LANE | compound |
| 16 | ’S | 's | PART | _ | 15 MARTIN | case |
| 17 | LANE | LANE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 HARRISON | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 W.C | punct |
| 19 | W.C | W.C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 LANE | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 LONDON | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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