Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 64
When the spider saw this he was vexed, and told the grasshopper that he did not want him for his friend again.
Who acts: spider, remainder · What happens: see, vex, tell, not want · To what, where: this, remainder, grasshopper · Speech: someone speaks here
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, remainder), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spider | det |
| 3 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 vexed | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 vexed | aux:pass |
| 8 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grasshopper | det |
| 13 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 want | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 want | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 want | advmod |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 want | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 friend | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 want | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 want | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the spider | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vex | past · passive | remainder | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the spider not said here | the grasshopper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not want not said to happen | past · do-support | remainder | grasshopper | again | for remainder's friend | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
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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