Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 11

He then told one of his slaves to bring the dried meat and kola, and when it was brought, the spider eat all the meat and kola except two nuts, one of which he returned to the chief, and the other he gave to the grasshopper, saying, “You must wait, my friend Dabi, for your food, as this meat and kola was brought for the stranger, and your name was not mentioned.”

Who acts: chief, spider, other, You, your · What happens: tell, bring, dry, eat, return, give · To what, where: one, dried meat, kola, meat, chief, grasshopper · 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, spider, other, You), 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	3 told	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 told	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 slaves	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 slaves	nmod:poss
7	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bring	mark
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meat	det
11	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 meat	amod
12	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kola	cc
14	kola	kola	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 meat	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brought	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 brought	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	aux:pass
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spider	det
23	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eat	nsubj
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 brought	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 meat	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 meat	det
27	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eat	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kola	cc
29	kola	kola	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meat	conj
30	except	except	ADP	_	32 nuts	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 nuts	nummod
32	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 meat	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 eat	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 returned	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 returned	nsubj
38	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 one	acl:relcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 chief	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 chief	det
41	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 returned	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gave	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 gave	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 other	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 gave	nsubj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 gave	nsubj
47	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 grasshopper	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 grasshopper	det
50	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gave	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 saying	punct
52	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 gave	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 wait	punct
54	“	"	PUNCT	_	57 wait	punct
55	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 wait	nsubj
56	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 wait	aux
57	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 saying	ccomp
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 Dabi	punct
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 friend	nmod:poss
60	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 Dabi	nmod:desc
61	Dabi	Dabi	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 wait	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 food	punct
63	for	for	ADP	_	65 food	case
64	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 food	nmod:poss
65	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 wait	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 brought	punct
67	as	as	SCONJ	_	73 brought	mark
68	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	69 meat	det
69	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 brought	nsubj:pass
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 kola	cc
71	kola	kola	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 meat	conj
72	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 brought	aux:pass
73	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 wait	conj
74	for	for	ADP	_	76 stranger	case
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 stranger	det
76	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 brought	obl
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 mentioned	punct
78	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 mentioned	cc
79	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	80 name	nmod:poss
80	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 mentioned	nsubj:pass
81	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	83 mentioned	aux:pass
82	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	83 mentioned	advmod
83	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	83 mentioned	punct
85	”	"	PUNCT	_	83 mentioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	chief	one of chief's slaves			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive		the dried meat and kola					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
3	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	bring	past · passive		kola					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
5	eat	infinitive	the spider	all meat and kola				except two nuts; one obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
6	return	past	chief			the chief		which obl	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location to chief=Destination
7	give	past	the other		the grasshopper			chief nsubj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to grasshopper=Recipient
8	say speech: assert	gerund	the other not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	wait in a quote	must	You	Dabi my friend				for your food	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	bring in a quote	past · passive		this meat and kola				for the stranger	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
11	not mention speech: other in a quote	past · passive		your name					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
12	name in a quote		your						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 11