Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 19
Your name was not mentioned, so you have no right to this food, which is all for me, ‘the stranger.’”
Who acts: you, food, Your · What happens: not mention, have, be, name · To what, where: name, right
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 (you, food, Your), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 mentioned | advmod |
| 5 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mentioned | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 right | det |
| 11 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 food | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 food | det |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 right | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 me | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 me | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 me | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 me | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 food | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stranger | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 stranger | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stranger | det |
| 24 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 right | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mention speech: other | past · passive | Your name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | no right and the stranger | to this food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | this food | for me; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | Your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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