Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 5
She always wore a cloth of the latest pattern, and a silk handkerchief round her head, with plenty of hairs from the elephant’s tail round her neck, and strings of beads round her waist.
Who acts: Awu · What happens: wear · To what, where: cloth, tail
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 wore | advmod |
| 3 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloth | det |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pattern | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pattern | det |
| 8 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 pattern | amod |
| 9 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 handkerchief | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 handkerchief | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 handkerchief | det |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 handkerchief | compound |
| 14 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obl |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 handkerchief | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 plenty | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 plenty | case |
| 20 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hairs | case |
| 22 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 plenty | nmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 tail | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 elephant | det |
| 25 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tail | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 elephant | case |
| 27 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obl |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 strings | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 strings | cc |
| 33 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wore | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 beads | case |
| 35 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 strings | nmod |
| 36 | round | round | ADP | _ | 38 waist | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 waist | nmod:poss |
| 38 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 strings | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Awu | a cloth of the latest pattern | the elephant's tail | with plenty of hairs; round Awu's neck; a silk handkerchief round Awu's head obl; strings of beads round Awu's waist obl; always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme from tail=Source |
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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