Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 49
Ode went before his sister, and when he reached the middle of the river the web broke, and he fell into the water, disappearing at once.
Who acts: Ode, spider, web · What happens: go, reach, break, fall, disappear · To what, where: middle, river, water
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 (Ode, spider, web), 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 | Ode | ode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 middle | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 middle | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 web | det |
| 17 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 broke | nsubj |
| 18 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 river | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 disappearing | punct |
| 27 | disappearing | disappear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 fell | advcl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 once | case |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 disappearing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ode | before spider's sister | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before sister=Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | spider | the middle of the river | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | past | the web | the river not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | spider | into the water result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | ||||
| 5 | disappear | gerund | spider not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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