Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 56
Akoba had very large breasts, which hung down, but this did not in any way spoil her beauty in the young men’s eyes.
Who acts: Akoba, large breasts, this · What happens: have, hang down, spoil · To what, where: large breasts, beauty, eyes
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 (Akoba, large breasts, this), 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 | Akoba | Akoba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 large | advmod |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 breasts | amod |
| 5 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hung | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hung | nsubj |
| 8 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 breasts | acl:relcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 hung | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spoil | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 spoil | cc |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 spoil | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 spoil | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 way | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spoil | nsubj |
| 18 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spoil | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 men | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 men | amod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 men | case |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spoil | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Akoba | large breasts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang down | past | large breasts | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spoil | past · do-support | this | Akoba's beauty | the young men's eyes | any way nsubj | 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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