--- title: When they got to the mouth of the hole, the cock cut a small piece o… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: When they got to the mouth of the hole, the cock cut a small piece of tie-tie and flew to the top of a tree, taking great care not to look in the direction of the frog. Who acts: holes, cock. 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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 (holes, cock), 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:pg70959:12:107 # text = When they got to the mouth of the hole, the cock cut a small piece of tie-tie and flew to the top of a tree, taking great care not to look in the direction of the frog. 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 13 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 tie tie NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 tie tie NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 31 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | holes *= hole* | | | | | to the mouth of the hole *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to mouth=Result | | 2 | **cut** | past | the cock | a small piece of tie tie | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Product | | 3 | **fly** | past | the cock *not said here* | | | | | to the top of a tree *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result | | 4 | **take** | gerund | the cock *not said here* | great care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 5 | **not** **look** | to-infinitive | the cock *not said here* | | | | | in the direction of the frog | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/107/) - ↑ back to [Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/)