Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 79
When she got there, she washed her daughter and then called upon Mossim to scrub her back.
Who acts: EWA · What happens: get, wash, call, scrub · To what, where: daughter, back · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 washed | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 washed | nsubj |
| 7 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 washed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 called | advmod |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 washed | conj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 Mossim | case |
| 14 | Mossim | Mossim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 scrub | mark |
| 16 | scrub | scrub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 called | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scrub | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | EWA | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wash | past | EWA | EWA's daughter | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | EWA not said here | then | upon Mossim | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | scrub | to-infinitive | EWA not said here | EWA's back | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent back=Source |
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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