--- title: After he had been alone for a little while, the Chief’s wife Osegi c… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: After he had been alone for a little while, the Chief’s wife Osegi came in, and seeing the grasshopper looking so miserable, went up to him and said, “Why are you so silent and sad at my daughter’s wedding, when all the other people are feasting and dancing?” Who acts: grasshopper, wife, seeing, you --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/) / [Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Sp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/) / 26 # Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 26 After he had been alone for a little while, the Chief’s wife Osegi came in, and seeing the grasshopper looking so miserable, went up to him and said, “Why are you so silent and sad at my daughter’s wedding, when all the other people are feasting and dancing?” **Who acts:** grasshopper, wife, seeing, you, other people · **What happens:** be, come in, see, look, go up, say · **To what, where:** grasshopper · **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 (grasshopper, wife, seeing, you), 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:pg70959:6:26 # text = After he had been alone for a little while, the Chief’s wife Osegi came in, and seeing the grasshopper looking so miserable, went up to him and said, “Why are you so silent and sad at my daughter’s wedding, when all the other people are feasting and dancing?” 1 After after ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 cop _ _ 5 alone alone ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 Osegi Osegi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 in in ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 csubj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 grasshopper grasshopper NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 “ " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 36 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 ccomp _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 conj _ _ 42 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 46 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 48 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 54 advmod _ _ 49 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 52 det:predet _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nsubj _ _ 53 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 feasting feast VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 parataxis _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 56 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 54 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ? ? PUNCT . _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ” " PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | grasshopper | | | | after a little while | | tree rules | | 2 | **come in** | past | the Chief's wife | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | gerund | | the grasshopper | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grasshopper=Stimulus | | 4 | **look** | gerund | seeing | | | | | miserable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **go up** | past | | | grasshopper | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | at my daughter; silent *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** *in a quote* | | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **feast** *in a quote* | present · progressive | all other people | | | | | | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **dance** *in a quote* | gerund | all other people *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/27/) - ↑ back to [Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/)