Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 87
When the people of Insofan heard that the chief’s new wife had arrived, many of them went to see her, as she was so well known by name.
Who acts: people, new wife, many, name · What happens: hear, arrive, go, see, know · To what, where: wife · 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 (people, new wife, many, name), 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 | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Insofan | case |
| 5 | Insofan | Insofan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 arrived | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chief | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 chief | case |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 arrived | aux |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 went | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 many | nmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 arrived | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 went | xcomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 known | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 known | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 known | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 known | aux:pass |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 well | advmod |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 known | advmod |
| 29 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 went | conj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 name | case |
| 31 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 known | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the people of Insofan | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past · perfect | the chief's new wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | many of people | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | many of people not said here | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | know | past · passive | name | wife | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=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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