Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 3
Now the spider wanted to go some distance from his house to marry a wife in a strange country, so he called upon his friend the grasshopper to accompany him.
Who acts: spider, grasshopper · What happens: want, go, marry, call, accompany · To what, where: distance, house, wife, strange country, 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 (spider, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spider | det |
| 3 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 distance | det |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 called | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 called | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | nsubj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wanted | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 friend | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friend | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 grasshopper | det |
| 28 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 accompany | mark |
| 30 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 grasshopper | acl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 accompany | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | the spider | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the spider not said here | some distance | grasshopper's house | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | |||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | the spider not said here | a wife | a strange country | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 4 | call | past | grasshopper | the grasshopper | upon grasshopper's friend | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | accompany | to-infinitive | grasshopper not said here | grasshopper | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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