Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 94
She then sat down and began to cry for her mother.
Who acts: woman · What happens: sit down, begin, cry
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 (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 began | cc |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cry | mark |
| 8 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 mother | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | woman | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | woman not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | woman not said here | for woman's mother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mother=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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