Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 63
Half the meat was given to the grasshopper, and the remainder divided amongst the people, the spider getting nothing.
Who acts: spider · What happens: give, divide, get · To what, where: meat, grasshopper, remainder, nothing
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), 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 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 meat | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meat | det |
| 3 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 grasshopper | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grasshopper | det |
| 8 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 divided | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 divided | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 remainder | det |
| 12 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 given | parataxis |
| 14 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 divided | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spider | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spider | det |
| 19 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 people | appos |
| 20 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 spider | acl |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 getting | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | half meat | the grasshopper | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to grasshopper=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | divide | participle · passive | the remainder | amongst the people | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | the spider not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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