Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 17
And when the people brought the food, they said, “Here is the stranger’s portion.”
Who acts: people, portion · What happens: bring, say, be · To what, where: food · 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 (people, portion), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 brought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 food | det |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Here | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Here | punct |
| 13 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Here | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stranger | det |
| 16 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 portion | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 stranger | case |
| 18 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Here | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the people | the food | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the stranger's portion | here property | tree rules |
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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