Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 71
She made most of her money by trading in palm kernels and camwood, but, as she was so popular wherever she went with the young men of the country, she also made a lot of money out of them, as, if they did not pay her well in advance, she would have nothing to do with them.
Who acts: EWA, MEN · What happens: make, trade, be, go, not pay, have · To what, where: most, palm kernels, lot, EWA, advance, 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 (EWA, MEN), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 money | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 money | nmod:poss |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 most | nmod |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 trading | mark |
| 8 | trading | trade | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 kernels | case |
| 10 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kernels | compound |
| 11 | kernels | kernel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trading | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 camwood | cc |
| 13 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kernels | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 made | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 made | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 but | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 popular | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 popular | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 popular | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 popular | advmod |
| 21 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 made | advcl |
| 22 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 went | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 popular | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 men | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 men | amod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 country | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 country | det |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 men | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 popular | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 made | nsubj |
| 34 | also | also | ADV | _ | 35 made | advmod |
| 35 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 lot | det |
| 37 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 made | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 money | case |
| 39 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lot | nmod |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 made | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 as | punct |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 made | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 pay | punct |
| 46 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 50 pay | mark |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 pay | nsubj |
| 48 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 pay | aux |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 pay | advmod |
| 50 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 made | conj |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 pay | obj |
| 52 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 50 pay | advmod |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 advance | case |
| 54 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 pay | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 have | punct |
| 56 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 have | nsubj |
| 57 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 have | aux |
| 58 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | conj |
| 59 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 58 have | obj |
| 60 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 do | mark |
| 61 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 59 nothing | acl |
| 62 | with | with | ADP | _ | 63 them | case |
| 63 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 61 do | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | EWA | most of EWA's money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Product | ||||
| 2 | trade | gerund | EWA not said here | palm kernels and camwood | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | EWA | popular property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | EWA | with the young men of the country; wherever property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | make | past | EWA | a lot of money | out MEN = man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product | |||
| 6 | not pay a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | MEN = man | EWA | advance | well property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Asset | ||
| 7 | have | would | EWA | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | EWA not said here | nothing not said here | with MEN = man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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