Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 122
When the natives saw that nothing happened to him, they all rushed in and there was a regular scramble for everything.
Who acts: natives, nothing, regular scramble · What happens: see, happen, rush in, be · To what, where: native, things · 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 (natives, nothing, regular scramble), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 natives | det |
| 3 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 happened | mark |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rushed | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 rushed | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rushed | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 scramble | det |
| 19 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 scramble | amod |
| 20 | scramble | scramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 everything | case |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 scramble | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the natives | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | nothing | native | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush in | participle · passive | things = thing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | be | past | a regular scramble for everything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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