Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 31
In the afternoon this was done, but when the spider heard his friend’s name called out, he was so angry that he would not eat.
Who acts: spider, grasshopper, friend · What happens: do, hear, call out, be, not eat, name · To what, where: this, name
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, friend), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 afternoon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 afternoon | det |
| 3 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 done | obl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 done | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 angry | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 angry | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 heard | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spider | det |
| 11 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 angry | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 friend | case |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 name | acl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 called | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 angry | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 angry | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 angry | advmod |
| 23 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 done | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 eat | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 eat | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 eat | advmod |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 angry | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | afternoon | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the spider | grasshopper's friend's name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | grasshopper's friend's name not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | grasshopper | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not eat | would | grasshopper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | name | grasshopper's friend | nom name «communication 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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