Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 35
When the food was ready the spider said to his friend, “Come on, Dabi, let us go and dance.”
Who acts: food, ready spider, us · What happens: be, say, come on, let, go, dance · To what, where: friend, Dabi, us · 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 (food, ready spider, us), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 food | det |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spider | amod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spider | det |
| 7 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 14 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 Come | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dabi | punct |
| 17 | Dabi | Dabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 Come | parataxis |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dance | cc |
| 23 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the food | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the ready spider | son's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come on in a quote | infinitive | Dabi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | dance in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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