Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 46
The spider then went up to his father-in-law and asked him to stop the dance, as he wished to go home at once.
Who acts: spider, ju · What happens: go up, ask, stop, wish, go · To what, where: ju, dance
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, ju), 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 | 2 spider | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stop | mark |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dance | det |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wished | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 wished | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wished | nsubj |
| 23 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wished | xcomp |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the spider | then | to ju's father in law | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the spider not said here | ju | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the spider not said here | the dance | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dance=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | ju | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | ju not said here | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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