Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 25
When he had finished the food the spider went out to dance and play with his new wife, but the grasshopper did not go, as he was very hungry and weak, and not feeling at all up to singing and dancing.
Who acts: grasshopper, spider · What happens: finish, go out, dance, play, not go, be · To what, where: food, all
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 (grasshopper, spider), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 go | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 food | det |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spider | det |
| 8 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 food | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dance | mark |
| 12 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 play | cc |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dance | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wife | amod |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 play | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 grasshopper | det |
| 22 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 go | advmod |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hungry | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 hungry | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hungry | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 hungry | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 hungry | advmod |
| 31 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 go | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 weak | cc |
| 33 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hungry | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 feeling | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 feeling | cc |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 feeling | advmod |
| 37 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 hungry | conj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 all | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 feeling | obl |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 feeling | compound:prt |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 singing | case |
| 42 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 feeling | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 dancing | cc |
| 44 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 singing | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | grasshopper | the food | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector food=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | the spider | the food not said here | out property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | the spider not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | the spider not said here | with grasshopper's new wife | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wife=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | not go | past · do-support | the grasshopper | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | grasshopper | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | grasshopper not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | not feel up | gerund | grasshopper not said here | all | to singing and dancing | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to singing=Experiencer |
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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