Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 80
Chief Inkang of Inkum was married to a woman named Igiri.
What happens: marry, name · To what, where: Chief Inkang, woman
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Inkang | compound |
| 2 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Inkum | case |
| 4 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Inkang | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obl |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 woman | acl |
| 11 | Igiri | Igiri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 named | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | Chief Inkang of Inkum | to a woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to woman=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a woman not said here | Igiri xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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