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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 26

After he had been alone for a little while, the Chief’s wife Osegi came in, and seeing the grasshopper looking so miserable, went up to him and said, “Why are you so silent and sad at my daughter’s wedding, when all the other people are feasting and dancing?”

Who acts: grasshopper, wife, seeing, you, other people · What happens: be, come in, see, look, go up, say · To what, where: grasshopper · 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 (grasshopper, wife, seeing, you), 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

casensubjauxcopadvmodcasedetamodoblpunctdetnmod:posscasensubjapposadvmodpunctcccsubjdetobjadvcladvmodxcomppunctparataxiscompound:prtcaseoblccconjpunctpunctadvmodcopnsubjadvmodccompccconjcasenmod:possoblconjobjpunctadvmoddet:predetdetamodnsubjauxparataxisccconjpunctpunctrootAfterADPhePRONhadAUXbeenAUXaloneADVforADPaDETlittleADJwhileNOUN,PUNCTtheDETChiefPROPN’sPARTwifeNOUNOsegiPROPNcameVERBinADV,PUNCTandCCONJseeingVERBtheDETgrasshopperNOUNlookingVERBsoADVmiserableADJ,PUNCTwentVERBupADPtoADPhimPRONandCCONJsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTWhyADVareAUXyouPRONsoADVsilentADJandCCONJsadADJatADPmyPRONdaughterNOUN’sAUXweddingNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVallDETtheDETotherADJpeopleNOUNareAUXfeastingVERBandCCONJdancingVERB?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_9 whilecase
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 whilensubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 whileaux
4beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part9 whilecop
5alonealoneADV_4 beenadvmod
6forforADP_9 whilecase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 whiledet
8littlelittleADJDegree=Pos9 whileamod
9whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing16 cameobl
10,,PUNCT_9 whilepunct
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Chiefdet
12ChiefChiefPROPNNumber=Sing14 wifenmod:poss
13’s'sPART_12 Chiefcase
14wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing16 camensubj
15OsegiOsegiPROPNNumber=Sing14 wifeappos
16camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17ininADV_16 cameadvmod
18,,PUNCT_23 lookingpunct
19andandCCONJ_23 lookingcc
20seeingseeVERBVerbForm=Ger23 lookingcsubj
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 grasshopperdet
22grasshoppergrasshopperNOUNNumber=Sing20 seeingobj
23lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 cameadvcl
24sosoADV_25 miserableadvmod
25miserablemiserableADJDegree=Pos23 lookingxcomp
26,,PUNCT_27 wentpunct
27wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 cameparataxis
28upupADP_27 wentcompound:prt
29totoADP_30 himcase
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 wentobl
31andandCCONJ_32 saidcc
32saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 wentconj
33,,PUNCT_39 silentpunct
34“"PUNCT_39 silentpunct
35WhywhyADVPronType=Int39 silentadvmod
36arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 silentcop
37youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs39 silentnsubj
38sosoADV_39 silentadvmod
39silentsilentADJDegree=Pos32 saidccomp
40andandCCONJ_41 sadcc
41sadsadADJDegree=Pos39 silentconj
42atatADP_44 daughtercase
43mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs44 daughternmod:poss
44daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing39 silentobl
45’sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 silentconj
46weddingweddingNOUNNumber=Sing45 ’sobj
47,,PUNCT_54 feastingpunct
48whenwhenADVPronType=Int54 feastingadvmod
49allallDETPronType=Tot52 peopledet:predet
50thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 peopledet
51otherotherADJDegree=Pos52 peopleamod
52peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur54 feastingnsubj
53arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin54 feastingaux
54feastingfeastVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part46 weddingparataxis
55andandCCONJ_56 dancingcc
56dancingdanceVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part54 feastingconj
57??PUNCT_56 dancingpunct
58”"PUNCT_54 feastingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispast · perfectgrasshopperafter a little whiletree rules
2come inpastthe Chief's wifevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3seegerundthe grasshoppervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grasshopper=Stimulus
4lookgerundseeingmiserable propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5go uppastgrasshoppervn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6say speech: askpastvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7is in a quotepresentyouat my daughter; silent propertytree rules
8be in a quoteyou not said heretree rules
9feast in a quotepresent · progressiveall other peoplevn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10dance in a quotegerundall other people not said herevn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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