Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 7
Shortly afterwards they arrived at the first town, and were welcomed by the chief.
Who acts: spider, chief · What happens: arrive, welcome · To what, where: first town
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, chief), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 welcomed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 welcomed | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 12 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arrived | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 chief | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 welcomed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | spider | the first town | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | welcome | past · passive | the chief | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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