Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 9
It is painted on to the skin with a small stick, and is a fight brown liquid paste.
Who acts: fight · What happens: paint on, be · To what, where: juice, brown liquid paste
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 (fight), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | aux:pass |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 painted | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skin | det |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stick | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stick | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stick | amod |
| 11 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 skin | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 paste | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 paste | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 paste | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fight | det |
| 16 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 paste | nsubj |
| 17 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 paste | amod |
| 18 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 paste | amod |
| 19 | paste | paste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint on | present · passive | juice | to the skin with a small stick result | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to skin=Result | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a fight | brown liquid paste | tree rules |
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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