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title: It is noteworthy that when you get over the watershed between the Cr… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: It is noteworthy that when you get over the watershed between the Cross River and the Katsena (Niger), and into the Munchi country, ju-ju does not seem to exist in the same way as it does further south. Who acts: owl, you, country ju ju. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elp
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 94

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It is noteworthy that when you get over the watershed between the Cross River and the Katsena (Niger), and into the Munchi country, ju-ju does not seem to exist in the same way as it does further south.

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**Who acts:** owl, you, country ju ju · **What happens:** be, get, not seem, exist, do · **To what, where:** watershed, same way

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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 (owl, you, country ju ju), 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:pg70959:1:94
# text = It is noteworthy that when you get over the watershed between the Cross River and the Katsena (Niger), and into the Munchi country, ju-ju does not seem to exist in the same way as it does further south.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	noteworthy	noteworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	watershed	watershed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Katsena	Katsena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Niger	Niger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Munchi	Munchi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
43	further	further	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	south	south	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | owl |  |  |  |  | noteworthy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | you |  |  | the watershed between the Cross River and the Katsena |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over watershed=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **seem** | present · do-support | country ju ju |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **exist** | to-infinitive | country ju ju *not said here* |  |  | the same way |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 5 | **do** | present | owl |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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