Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 88
When they saw Mossim, they were not greatly impressed by her looks, and said so quite freely in very plain terms.
Who acts: people · What happens: see, not impress, say · To what, where: Mossim · 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), 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 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 4 | Mossim | Mossim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 impressed | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 impressed | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 impressed | advmod |
| 9 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 10 impressed | advmod |
| 10 | impressed | impress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 looks | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 looks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 impressed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 freely | advmod |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 freely | advmod |
| 19 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 terms | case |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 plain | advmod |
| 22 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 terms | amod |
| 23 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 freely | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | people | Mossim | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mossim=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not impress | past · passive | people | by Mossim's looks; greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | freely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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