Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 86
The chief welcomed her, but was not very pleased, as he had expected to see a much finer woman from all the reports he had heard of her beauty.
Who acts: chief · What happens: welcome, not be, expect, see, hear · To what, where: woman, chief, finer woman, reports
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 welcomed | nsubj |
| 3 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 welcomed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleased | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 welcomed | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 expected | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 expected | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 expected | aux |
| 15 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pleased | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 expected | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 finer | advmod |
| 20 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 reports | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 reports | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 reports | det |
| 25 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 heard | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | aux |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 reports | acl:relcl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 beauty | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 31 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heard | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past | the chief | woman | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | pleased property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | expect | past · perfect · passive | chief | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | chief not said here | a finer woman | all reports | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | chief | all reports not said here | of woman's beauty | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer report=Stimulus |
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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