Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 8
_--Okukum is the juice extracted from a fungus like a very small mushroom.
Who acts: _ · What happens: be, extract · To what, where: juice, fungus
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 (_), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 juice | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 _ | punct |
| 3 | Okukum | Okukum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | flat |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 juice | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 juice | det |
| 6 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | extracted | extract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 juice | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 fungus | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fungus | det |
| 10 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extracted | obl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 mushroom | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mushroom | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mushroom | amod |
| 15 | mushroom | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extracted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 juice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | _ | the juice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | extract | participle | the juice not said here | a fungus | like a small mushroom | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from fungus=Initial_Location |
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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