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title: She then abused her husband as much as she dared for not looking aft… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: She then abused her husband as much as she dared for not looking after their child properly, and pulled her hair down and cried all the night. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., with its dependen
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 107

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She then abused her husband as much as she dared for not looking after their child properly, and pulled her hair down and cried all the night.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** abuse, dare, not look, pull down, cry · **To what, where:** husband, hair

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg70959:14:107
# text = She then abused her husband as much as she dared for not looking after their child properly, and pulled her hair down and cried all the night.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	abused	abuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abuse** | past | mother | mother's husband |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dare** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **look** | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  | after farm's child | properly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pull down** | past |  | mother's hair |  |  |  | down *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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