Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 29

Then Osegi said she would tell the people what their proper names were so that when the food was brought the grasshopper would have his share.

Who acts: Osegi, proper names, people, grasshopper · What happens: say, tell, bring, have, name, share · To what, where: people, food · 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 (Osegi, proper names, people, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	Osegi	Osegi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 have	obj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 names	nmod:poss
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 names	amod
12	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 brought	mark
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 brought	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 food	det
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	aux:pass
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 have	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grasshopper	det
22	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 people	acl:relcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 share	nmod:poss
26	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Osegi			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	would	Osegi		the people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
3	bring	past · passive		the food				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
4	have	would · past	people's proper names	the people			the grasshopper nsubj; grasshopper's share obj	tree rules
5	name		people					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 29