Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 120

The road passed through an old grave of a chief who had been buried in the house, and many things, including rods, bottles of gin and plates, had been put in the grave.

Who acts: road · What happens: pass, bury, put · To what, where: road, old grave, chief, house, many things, grave

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 (road), 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 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 road	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 grave	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grave	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grave	amod
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 chief	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chief	det
10	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grave	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 buried	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 buried	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 buried	aux:pass
14	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 chief	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 put	nsubj:pass
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rods	punct
23	including	including	ADP	_	24 rods	case
24	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 things	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bottles	punct
26	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 things	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 gin	case
28	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bottles	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 plates	cc
30	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gin	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 things	punct
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 put	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 put	aux:pass
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 road	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 grave	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 grave	det
37	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 road	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pass	participle		the road not said here	a old grave of a chief	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through grave=Location
2	bury	past · perfect · passive		a chief	the house	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in house=Destination
3	put	past · perfect · passive	the road not said here	many things and rods and bottles of gin and plates	the grave	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 120