Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 48
One after the other the people crossed over the river on the spider’s web quite safely, until at last there were only left Essama and her brother.
Who acts: One · What happens: cross, leave · To what, where: river, Essama, last
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 other | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 other | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crossed | nsubj |
| 7 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crossed | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 web | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spider | det |
| 13 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 web | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 spider | case |
| 15 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crossed | obl |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 safely | advmod |
| 17 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 7 crossed | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 left | mark |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 left | obl |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 were | expl |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux:pass |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 left | advmod |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 crossed | parataxis |
| 26 | Essama | Essama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 brother | cc |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 brother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Essama | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | One after the other | the river | on the spider's web; the people nsubj; safely property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over river=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | Essama and ESSAMA's brother | last | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: essama=Theme at last=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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