Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 21
The marriage between the spider and Chief Tawn’s daughter was celebrated the following day.
What happens: celebrate, follow · To what, where: marriage
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: 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 marriage | det |
| 2 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 spider | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spider | det |
| 5 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marriage | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 daughter | cc |
| 7 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Tawn | Tawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Chief | flat |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Chief | case |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marriage | conj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 12 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 celebrated | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | the marriage between the spider and Chief's daughter | day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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