Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 53
At that time there was a very fine woman walking about the towns named Akoba.
Who acts: fine woman · What happens: be, walk, name · To what, where: towns
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 (fine woman), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 fine | advmod |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 10 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 woman | acl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 towns | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 towns | det |
| 13 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walking | obl |
| 14 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 towns | acl |
| 15 | Akoba | Akoba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 named | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fine woman | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | a fine woman not said here | about the towns | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about town=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | the towns not said here | Akoba 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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