Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 24

The spider therefore ate his own share and the grasshopper’s as well, while the poor grasshopper sat down by himself, feeling very sad, and not speaking to anyone.

Who acts: spider, poor grasshopper, grasshopper · What happens: eat, sit down, feel, not speak, share · To what, where: own share · 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 (spider, poor grasshopper, grasshopper), 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 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 share	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 share	amod
7	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ’s	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grasshopper	det
10	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ’s	nsubj
11	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
12	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	11 ’s	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 as	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 sat	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grasshopper	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grasshopper	amod
18	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 feeling	punct
24	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sat	advcl
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 sad	advmod
26	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feeling	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 speaking	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 speaking	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 speaking	advmod
30	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 feeling	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 anyone	case
32	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 speaking	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the spider	grasshopper's own share	therefore property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient
2	sit down	past	the poor grasshopper		by grasshopper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by himself=Location
3	feel	gerund	the poor grasshopper not said here		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	not speak speech: other	gerund	the poor grasshopper not said here		to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent
5	share		grasshopper			nom share «possession 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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 24