Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 36
But the grasshopper refused and said, “No, you go and dance, and I will join you later.”
Who acts: grasshopper, you · What happens: refuse, say, go, dance, join · To what, where: you · 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 (grasshopper, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 refused | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grasshopper | det |
| 3 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refused | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dance | cc |
| 14 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 join | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 join | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 join | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 join | aux |
| 19 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refused | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 join | obj |
| 21 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 join | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the grasshopper | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the grasshopper not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dance in a quote | present | you not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | join in a quote | future | the grasshopper = grasshopper | you | late property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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