Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 66
N.B.--This story was given to me at Akparabong by a native, but there would appear to be some doubt as to whether it is a local story or not.
Who acts: story · What happens: give, appear, be · To what, where: N.B, me, Akparabong, doubt
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 (story), 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 | N.B | N.B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 N.B | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 N.B | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 given | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Akparabong | case |
| 11 | Akparabong | Akparabong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 native | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 native | det |
| 14 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 given | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appear | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 appear | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 appear | expl |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 appear | aux |
| 19 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 given | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 doubt | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 doubt | cop |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 doubt | det |
| 23 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appear | xcomp |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 31 story | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 31 story | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 story | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 story | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 story | det |
| 30 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 story | amod |
| 31 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appear | obl |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 not | cc |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 story | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | N.B | me | Akparabong | by a native; this story nsubj:pass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient at akparabong=Asset | ||
| 2 | appear | would | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | some doubt | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | story | as a local story | tree rules |
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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