Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 78
As the river was very shallow, it being the dry season, they walked and waded down to the Cross River.
Who acts: RIVER, beads · What happens: be, walk, wade down · To what, where: dry season, Cross River
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 (RIVER, beads), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shallow | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shallow | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 shallow | advmod |
| 6 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 season | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 season | nsubj |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 season | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 season | det |
| 11 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 season | amod |
| 12 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shallow | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shallow | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 waded | cc |
| 17 | waded | wade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 walked | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 waded | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 River | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 River | det |
| 21 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 River | compound |
| 22 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 waded | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shallow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | as the river; shallow property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | RIVER | the dry season | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | beads = bead | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wade down | past | beads = bead not said here | the Cross River | down property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination |
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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