Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 59

This made the people angry, and they all turned out with sticks to beat the grasshopper, but when he saw them coming, he called out to them and soon convinced them that his dog had not bitten the chief’s cow, but had chased a bush cow and had wounded it badly.

Who acts: This, people, grasshopper · What happens: make, turn out, beat, see, come, call out · To what, where: people, grasshopper, dog, bush cow

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 (This, people, grasshopper), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 turned	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 turned	advmod
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 turned	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 sticks	case
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 beat	mark
15	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 turned	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grasshopper	det
17	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beat	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 called	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 called	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	obj
24	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 saw	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	nsubj
27	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 called	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 called	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 convinced	cc
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 convinced	advmod
33	convinced	convince	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 called	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 convinced	obj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 bitten	mark
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 dog	nmod:poss
37	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bitten	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 bitten	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 bitten	advmod
40	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 convinced	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 chief	det
42	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 cow	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 chief	case
44	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bitten	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 chased	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 chased	cc
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 chased	aux
48	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 made	parataxis
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 cow	det
50	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cow	compound
51	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 chased	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 wounded	cc
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 wounded	aux
54	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 chased	conj
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 wounded	obj
56	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	54 wounded	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	This	the people		angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
2	turn out	past	people			with sticks	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beat	to-infinitive	people not said here	the grasshopper			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grasshopper=Theme
4	see	past	grasshopper	people			tree rules
5	come	gerund	people not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	call out speech: assert	past	grasshopper		people		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
7	convince	past	grasshopper not said here	people		soon property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
8	not bite	past · perfect · passive		grasshopper's dog		the chief's cow obj	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient cow=Result
9	chase	past · perfect		a bush cow			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
10	wound	past · perfect		dog		badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 59