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title: When they got to the place where the evil monster was, they tied bot… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When they got to the place where the evil monster was, they tied both of his legs very securely with the tie-tie, and then went back by the way they had come. Who acts: holes, evil monster. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni Wh
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 105

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When they got to the place where the evil monster was, they tied both of his legs very securely with the tie-tie, and then went back by the way they had come.

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**Who acts:** holes, evil monster · **What happens:** get, be, tie, go back, come · **To what, where:** place, both, way

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holes, evil monster), 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:pg70959:12:106
# text = When they got to the place where the evil monster was, they tied both of his legs very securely with the tie-tie, and then went back by the way they had come.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | holes *= hole* |  |  |  |  | to the place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | the evil monster | the place *not said here* |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tie** | past | holes *= hole* | both of rabbit's legs |  |  |  | with the tie tie; securely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent both=Patient with tie=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **go back** | past | holes *= hole* *not said here* |  |  |  | then | by the way | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | holes *= hole* | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |

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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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