Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 92
In the morning Mossim told the girl to go and get water from the spring, and the little girl went off with the water pot on her head.
Who acts: Mossim, little girl · What happens: tell, go, get, go off · To what, where: girl, water, head · 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 (Mossim, little girl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 4 | Mossim | Mossim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 spring | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spring | det |
| 15 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 pot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pot | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pot | compound |
| 26 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Mossim | the girl | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mossim not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | Mossim not said here | water | spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | go off | past | the little girl | girl's head | with the water pot | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
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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