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title: A few hunters go out with their long Dane guns and station themselve… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: A few hunters go out with their long Dane guns and station themselves one under each tree. Who acts: few hunters. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 123

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A few hunters go out with their long Dane guns and station themselves one under each tree.

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**Who acts:** few hunters · **What happens:** go out

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few hunters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg70959:1:123
# text = A few hunters go out with their long Dane guns and station themselves one under each tree.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | present | a few hunters |  |  |  |  | with hunters's long Dane guns and station  hunters; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gun=Co-Agent |

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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.

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**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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