Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 52
Chief Leku of Inkum married a woman called Achor, and lived with her for some years.
Who acts: Chief Leku · What happens: marry, call, live · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief Leku), 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 Leku | compound |
| 2 | Leku | Leku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 married | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Inkum | case |
| 4 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Leku | nmod |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 woman | acl |
| 9 | Achor | Achor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lived | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 years | det |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lived | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | Chief Leku of Inkum | a woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a woman not said here | Achor xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | past | Chief Leku of Inkum not said here | year | with Leku | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location |
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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