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title: When the morning came, the cock went to the cow, the sheep and goats… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When the morning came, the cock went to the cow, the sheep and goats, and said, “As our master is missing we should all go and look for him.” Who acts: morning, cock, master, we. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone W
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 93

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When the morning came, the cock went to the cow, the sheep and goats, and said, “As our master is missing we should all go and look for him.”

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**Who acts:** morning, cock, master, we · **What happens:** come, go, say, miss, look · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (morning, cock, master, we), 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:pg70959:12:94
# text = When the morning came, the cock went to the cow, the sheep and goats, and said, “As our master is missing we should all go and look for him.”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the morning |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the cock |  |  |  |  | to the cow and the sheep and goats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cow=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **miss** *in a quote* | present · progressive | our master |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | should | we |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for master | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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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