Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 34

Tawu then said he would make another feast to celebrate their departure, and that he should like to see his son-in-law dance once more before he returned home; so the people were called to another play, and the chief milked one more cow for their food.

Who acts: Tawu, feast, son, chief, spider · What happens: say, make, celebrate, like, see, return · To what, where: feast, departure, law dance, people, play, one more cow · 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 (Tawu, feast, son, chief), 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	Tawu	Tawu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 feast	det
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 celebrate	mark
10	celebrate	celebrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 departure	nmod:poss
12	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 celebrate	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 like	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 like	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dance	nmod:poss
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dance	nsubj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 dance	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 dance	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 in	punct
26	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dance	compound
27	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
28	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 see	advmod
30	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 returned	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 returned	nsubj
32	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	advcl
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 returned	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 called	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	39 called	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 people	det
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 called	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 called	aux:pass
39	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 play	case
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	42 play	det
42	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 called	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 milked	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 milked	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 chief	det
46	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 milked	nsubj
47	milked	milk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 cow	nummod
49	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 cow	amod
50	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 milked	obj
51	for	for	ADP	_	53 food	case
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 food	nmod:poss
53	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 milked	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tawu			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	would	Tawu	another feast				tree rules
3	celebrate	to-infinitive	another feast not said here	spider's departure				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme
4	like	should	Tawu					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tawu not said here	Tawu's law dance son				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus
6	return	past	son				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	call	past · passive		the people	another play			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to play=Recipient
8	milk	past	the chief	one more cow			for spider's food	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent cow=Source for food=Theme
9	depart		spider					nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent
10	dance		Tawu					nom dance «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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Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 34