Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 101
At last, however, as she did not like to hear her little daughter crying, Ewa Abagi came out very quickly, helped Essere with the water pot on to her head, and went back again into the river.
Who acts: Essere, little daughter, Ewa · What happens: not like, hear, cry, come out, help, go back · To what, where: last, little daughter, Essere, river
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Essere, little daughter, Ewa), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 like | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 like | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 like | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 like | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 like | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hear | obj |
| 16 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 daughter | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 18 | Ewa | Ewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 19 | Abagi | Abagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ewa | flat |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 quickly | advmod |
| 23 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 helped | punct |
| 25 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | parataxis |
| 26 | Essere | Essere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 helped | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 pot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pot | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pot | compound |
| 30 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 helped | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 on | fixed |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pot | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 helped | conj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 river | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 river | det |
| 42 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | Essere | last | however property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | Essere not said here | Essere's little daughter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | Essere's little daughter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come out | past | Ewa | out, quickly property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | help | past | Essere | with the water pot on Essere's head | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent essere=Beneficiary with pot=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go back | past | the river | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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