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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 113

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The cock and the rabbit then untied the frog and threw him into the river: they then returned and squeezed the juice of the leaves into the eyes of all the people and animals, and they woke up immediately, none the worse for their experience but very frightened.

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**Who acts:** cock, people · **What happens:** untie, throw, return, squeeze, wake up, experience · **To what, where:** frog, COCK, river, juice, eyes

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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 (cock, people), 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:pg70959:12:114
# text = The cock and the rabbit then untied the frog and threw him into the river: they then returned and squeezed the juice of the leaves into the eyes of all the people and animals, and they woke up immediately, none the worse for their experience but very frightened.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	untied	untie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	45	nsubj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	parataxis	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	very	very	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **untie** | past | the cock and the rabbit | the frog |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | past | the cock and the rabbit *not said here* | COCK |  |  |  | into the river *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result |
| 3 | **return** | past | people |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **squeeze** | past | people *not said here* | the juice of the leaves |  | the eyes of all people and animals |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent juice=Material into eye=Product |
| 5 | **wake up** | past | people |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **experience** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=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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