Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 65
He then set himself to make a net of web in order to revenge himself on the grasshopper, and has ever since lived on insects.
Who acts: remainder · What happens: set, make, have, live · To what, where: remainder, net, revenge
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 set | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 net | det |
| 8 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 web | case |
| 10 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 net | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 revenge | case |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 in | fixed |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 revenge | mark |
| 14 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 revenge | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 grasshopper | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grasshopper | det |
| 18 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 has | cc |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 lived | advmod |
| 23 | since | since | ADV | _ | 24 lived | advmod |
| 24 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 has | advcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 insects | case |
| 26 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lived | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | remainder | remainder | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient himself=Result | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | remainder not said here | a net of web | revenge remainder | on the grasshopper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset net=Product | ||
| 3 | have | present | remainder not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live | past | remainder not said here | ever | on insects; since property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on insect=Location |
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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