Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 15
Now Tawn had a wife called Osegi, who was a very good-natured woman, which was lucky for the grasshopper as things turned out.
Who acts: Tawn, wife, good natured woman · What happens: have, call, be, turn out · To what, where: wife, good natured woman, 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 (Tawn, wife, good natured woman), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Tawn | Tawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wife | det |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wife | acl |
| 7 | Osegi | Osegi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 woman | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 woman | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 woman | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 good | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 15 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lucky | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lucky | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lucky | cop |
| 20 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 grasshopper | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grasshopper | det |
| 23 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lucky | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lucky | obl |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 things | acl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 turned | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Tawn | a wife | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a wife not said here | Osegi xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a wife | a good natured woman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a good natured woman | for the grasshopper; as things; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | turn out | participle | things not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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