Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 2

Awu was a native woman of Inkum, a town on the right bank of the Cross River, consisting of five compounds separate one from another by about half a mile of bush.

Who acts: Awu, town · What happens: be, consist, separate · To what, where: native woman, one

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Awu, town), 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	Awu	Awu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Inkum	case
7	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 woman	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 town	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 separate	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 bank	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bank	det
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bank	amod
14	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 town	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 River	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 River	det
17	Cross	Cross	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 River	compound
18	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bank	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 consisting	punct
20	consisting	consist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 town	acl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 compounds	case
22	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 compounds	nummod
23	compounds	compound	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 consisting	obl
24	separate	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	parataxis
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 separate	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 another	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	nmod
28	by	by	ADP	_	32 mile	case
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 half	advmod
30	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	32 mile	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mile	det
32	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 separate	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 bush	case
34	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mile	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Awu	a native woman	of Inkum	tree rules
2	consist	gerund	a town on the right bank of the Cross River not said here		of five compounds	tree rules
3	separate	present	a town on the right bank of the Cross River	one	by half mile of bush; from another	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient from another=Co-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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 2