Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 80
The slave woman then came up behind her mistress, and pushed her into the Cross River, where she at once disappeared.
Who acts: slave woman, woman · What happens: come up, push, disappear · To what, where: woman, 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 (slave woman, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woman | compound |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 mistress | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pushed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pushed | cc |
| 12 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pushed | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 River | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 River | det |
| 16 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 River | compound |
| 17 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pushed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 disappeared | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 disappeared | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 23 disappeared | mark |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 disappeared | advmod |
| 23 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 River | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the slave woman | then | behind woman's mistress | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind mistress=Location | |||
| 2 | push | past | the slave woman not said here | woman | the Cross River | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into river=Destination | |||
| 3 | disappear | past | woman | once property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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