Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 60
He then offered to show the hunters where the place was, and they gladly accepted his offer.
Who acts: grasshopper, hunters · What happens: offer, show, accept · To what, where: hunters, offer
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, hunters), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 offered | advmod |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 show | mark |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offered | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hunters | det |
| 7 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 show | obj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 was | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hunters | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 accepted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 accepted | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accepted | nsubj |
| 15 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 16 accepted | advmod |
| 16 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 offered | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 offer | nmod:poss |
| 18 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accepted | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | grasshopper | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | grasshopper not said here | the hunters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hunter=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | accept | past | hunters = hunter | grasshopper's offer | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | |||
| 4 | offer | grasshopper | nom offer «communication 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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