Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 105

He promised them that, if they succeeded in bringing the woman to him, he would hold a big play and “dash” them plenty of tombo and food.

Who acts: chief, MEN · What happens: promise, succeed, bring, hold · To what, where: that, MEN, woman, chief, big play

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 (chief, MEN), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	obj
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 promised	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 succeeded	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 succeeded	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 succeeded	nsubj
8	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 bringing	mark
10	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 succeeded	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bringing	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bringing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hold	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hold	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hold	aux
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 play	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 play	amod
21	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dash	cc
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 dash	punct
24	dash	dash	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 play	conj
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 hold	punct
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hold	obj
27	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 tombo	case
29	tombo	tombo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plenty	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 food	cc
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tombo	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	chief	that	MEN = man		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal that=Theme
2	succeed a condition, not said to happen	past	MEN = man				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bring	gerund	MEN = man not said here	the woman	chief		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme to he=Destination
4	hold	would	chief	a big play and dash		MEN = man obj; plenty of tombo and food obj	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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 105

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 105