Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 12
Later on the general supply of food was passed round, a certain amount being set on one side for the strangers.
What happens: pass round, set · To what, where: general supply, certain amount, one side
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: 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 passed | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 supply | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 supply | det |
| 4 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 supply | amod |
| 5 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 supply | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 passed | aux:pass |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 passed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 amount | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 amount | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 amount | amod |
| 14 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | parataxis |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 set | aux:pass |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 amount | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 side | nummod |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 strangers | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 strangers | det |
| 22 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 set | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass round | past · passive | the general supply of food | a certain amount parataxis; late, round property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: on supply=Location | ||||
| 2 | set | gerund · passive | a certain amount not said here | one side | for the strangers | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on side=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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