Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 6
She also wore a piece of black braid tied round each ankle, and some rings on her fingers.
Who acts: Awu · What happens: wear, tie · To what, where: piece, black braid
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 | also | also | ADV | _ | 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 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wore | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 braid | case |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 braid | amod |
| 8 | braid | braid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 braid | acl |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 ankle | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 ankle | det |
| 12 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rings | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rings | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 rings | det |
| 16 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wore | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 fingers | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rings | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Awu | a piece of black braid | some rings on Awu's fingers obl | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Source | |||
| 2 | tie | participle | black braid not said here | round each ankle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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