Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 7
These are the signs of a girl who is popular with young men.
Who acts: These, girl · What happens: be · To what, where: signs
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 (These, girl), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 signs | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 signs | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 signs | det |
| 4 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 signs | nmod |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 popular | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 popular | cop |
| 10 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 popular | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 signs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | These | the signs | of a girl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a girl | with young men; popular property | 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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