Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 97
When she arrived at the house, Mossim asked her who had painted her with okokum and why she had been so long getting the water from the spring.
Who acts: Essere, Mossim · What happens: arrive, ask, paint, be, get · To what, where: house, Essere, water · 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 (Essere, Mossim), 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 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 8 | Mossim | Mossim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 painted | nmod:poss |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 painted | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 painted | aux |
| 13 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 painted | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 okokum | case |
| 16 | okokum | okokum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 painted | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 long | cc |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 long | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 long | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 long | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 long | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 painted | conj |
| 24 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 long | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 spring | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 spring | det |
| 29 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Essere | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Mossim | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | paint | past · perfect | Essere | with okokum; who nsubj | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with okokum=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | Essere | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | gerund | Essere not said here | the water | spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=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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