Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 32
The second day the servants did the same, and the spider again refused the food when it was brought.
Who acts: servants, spider · What happens: do, refuse, bring · To what, where: same, food
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 (servants, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servants | det |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 did | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 refused | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 refused | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spider | det |
| 12 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 refused | nsubj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 refused | advmod |
| 14 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 food | det |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 refused | obj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 brought | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | 14 refused | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the servants | the same | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | the spider | the food | again | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | past · passive | food | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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