Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 106
The chief told Essere that, when she went in the morning to get the water, if she wanted to get her mother back, directly she had got the water out of the river she must take the pot back some little distance into the bush.
Who acts: chief, Essere · What happens: tell, go, get, want, get back, take back · To what, where: that, Essere, water, mother, river, pot · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Essere), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Essere | Essere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 went | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wanted | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 wanted | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wanted | nsubj |
| 20 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wanted | xcomp |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 got | punct |
| 27 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 30 got | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 got | aux |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 wanted | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 water | det |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 got | obj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 river | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 river | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 river | det |
| 36 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 got | obl |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 take | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 take | aux |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 got | ccomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pot | det |
| 41 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obj |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 39 take | advmod |
| 43 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 distance | det |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 distance | amod |
| 45 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obl |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 bush | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 bush | det |
| 48 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 take | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief | that | Essere | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent essere=Recipient that=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | past | Essere | morning | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Essere not said here | the water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | want a condition, not said to happen | past | Essere | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Essere not said here | Essere's mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | get | past · perfect | Essere | the water | the river | directly property | tree rules | ||
| 7 | take back | must | Essere | the pot | the bush | some little distance obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme into bush=Destination |
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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