Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 48
Chief Tawu then gave both the spider and the grasshopper a dog each as a present, and shortly afterwards they started off together on their-return journey.
Who acts: Chief, spider · What happens: give, start off, journey · To what, where: dog, spider, return journey
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 (Chief, spider), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | Tawu | Tawu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 spider | cc:preconj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spider | det |
| 7 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | iobj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grasshopper | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grasshopper | det |
| 10 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spider | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 gave | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 present | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 present | det |
| 16 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 started | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 started | cc |
| 19 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 20 afterwards | advmod |
| 20 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 22 started | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 started | nsubj |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 started | compound:prt |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 started | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 journey | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 journey | nmod:poss |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 their | punct |
| 28 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 journey | compound |
| 29 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 started | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Chief | a dog | the spider and the grasshopper | then | as a present | tree rules | |
| 2 | start off | past | spider | spider's return journey | afterwards, together property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | journey | spider | nom journey «act 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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