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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 89

Now, one of the young men of the town, who had been down the river trading, knew Ewa Abagi very well indeed, and, when he saw the slave woman, he recognized her as the servant, so he told Chief Awor.

Who acts: town, one, many · What happens: be, know, see, recognize, tell · To what, where: Ewa, slave woman, woman, Chief · 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 (town, one, many), 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

advmodpunctnsubjcasedetamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctnsubjauxcopcasedetcompoundappospunctobjflatadvmodadvmodadvmodpunctccpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisdetcompoundobjpunctnsubjconjobjcasedetoblpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisiobjflatpunctrootNowADV,PUNCToneNUMofADPtheDETyoungADJmenNOUNofADPtheDETtownNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXbeenAUXdownADPtheDETriverNOUNtradingNOUN,PUNCTknewVERBEwaPROPNAbagiPROPNveryADVwellADVindeedADV,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTwhenADVhePRONsawVERBtheDETslaveNOUNwomanNOUN,PUNCThePRONrecognizedVERBherPRONasADPtheDETservantNOUN,PUNCTsoADVhePRONtoldVERBChiefPROPNAworPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem20 knewadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card20 knewnsubj
4ofofADP_7 mencase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 mendet
6youngyoungADJDegree=Pos7 menamod
7menmanNOUNNumber=Plur3 onenmod
8ofofADP_10 towncase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 towndet
10towntownNOUNNumber=Sing7 mennmod
11,,PUNCT_18 tradingpunct
12whowhoPRONPronType=Rel18 tradingnsubj
13hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 tradingaux
14beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part18 tradingcop
15downdownADP_18 tradingcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 tradingdet
17riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing18 tradingcompound
18tradingtradingNOUNNumber=Sing10 townappos
19,,PUNCT_18 tradingpunct
20knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
21EwaEwaPROPNNumber=Sing20 knewobj
22AbagiAbagiPROPNNumber=Sing21 Ewaflat
23veryveryADV_24 welladvmod
24wellwellADVDegree=Pos25 indeedadvmod
25indeedindeedADV_20 knewadvmod
26,,PUNCT_31 sawpunct
27andandCCONJ_31 sawcc
28,,PUNCT_31 sawpunct
29whenwhenADVPronType=Int31 sawadvmod
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 sawnsubj
31sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 knewparataxis
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 womandet
33slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing34 womancompound
34womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing31 sawobj
35,,PUNCT_37 recognizedpunct
36hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 recognizednsubj
37recognizedrecognizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 sawconj
38hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 recognizedobj
39asasADP_41 servantcase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 servantdet
41servantservantNOUNNumber=Sing37 recognizedobl
42,,PUNCT_45 toldpunct
43sosoADV_45 toldadvmod
44hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 toldnsubj
45toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 knewparataxis
46ChiefChiefPROPNNumber=Sing45 toldiobj
47AworAworPROPNNumber=Sing46 Chiefflat
48..PUNCT_20 knewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispast · perfectthe towndown the river tradingtree rules
2knowpastone of the young men of the townEwanowindeed propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ewa=Stimulus
3seepastmanythe slave womanvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4recognizepastmanywomanas the servantvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus as servant=Attribute
5tell speech: assertpastmanyChiefvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient

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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