Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 33
Early in the morning of the third day the spider told his father-in-law that he was going home, and that he would leave his wife for a time, and come back for her later.
Who acts: spider, grasshopper · What happens: tell, go, leave, come back · To what, where: father, wife · 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spider | det |
| 10 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 father | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 going | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 told | ccomp |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 going | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 leave | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 leave | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 leave | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 leave | aux |
| 28 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | parataxis |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leave | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leave | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 come | cc |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 leave | conj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 come | advmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 later | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 later | nmod:poss |
| 40 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 come | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the spider | grasshopper's father in law | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | grasshopper | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | would | grasshopper | grasshopper's wife | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||
| 4 | come back | infinitive | grasshopper not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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