Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 116
The master will recognise his slaves and they will work for him.
Who acts: master · What happens: recognise, work · To what, where: slaves
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 (master), 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 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recognise | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 recognise | aux |
| 4 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 6 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recognise | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 work | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 work | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 work | aux |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 recognise | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 work | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recognise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | future | the master | belief's slaves | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slave=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | work | future | master | for belief | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |
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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