--- title: When he had finished the food the spider went out to dance and play… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: When he had finished the food the spider went out to dance and play with his new wife, but the grasshopper did not go, as he was very hungry and weak, and not feeling at all up to singing and dancing. Who acts: grasshopper, spider. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grasshopper, spider), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg70959:6:25 # text = When he had finished the food the spider went out to dance and play with his new wife, but the grasshopper did not go, as he was very hungry and weak, and not feeling at all up to singing and dancing. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 out out ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 grasshopper grasshopper NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 obl _ _ 40 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 singing singing NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | grasshopper | the food | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector food=Eventuality | | 2 | **go out** | past | the spider | the food *not said here* | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **dance** | to-infinitive | the spider *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **play** | infinitive | the spider *not said here* | | | | | with grasshopper's new wife | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wife=Co-Agent | | 5 | **not** **go** | past · do-support | the grasshopper | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | grasshopper | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | grasshopper *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **feel up** | gerund | grasshopper *not said here* | | | all | | to singing and dancing | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to singing=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/26/) - ↑ back to [Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/)