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title: The next two days Inkang Ezen spent in borrowing native razors from… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The next two days Inkang Ezen spent in borrowing native razors from her friends and sharpening them. Who acts: next two days. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 109

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The next two days Inkang Ezen spent in borrowing native razors from her friends and sharpening them.

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**Who acts:** next two days · **What happens:** spend, borrow, sharpen · **To what, where:** native razors, razors

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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 (next two days), 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:pg70959:14:109
# text = The next two days Inkang Ezen spent in borrowing native razors from her friends and sharpening them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Inkang	Inkang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Ezen	Ezen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	borrowing	borrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	razors	razor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past | the next two days |  |  |  |  | Inkang *nsubj* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **borrow** | gerund | the next two days *not said here* | native razors |  |  |  | from Inkang's friends | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent razor=Theme from friend=Source |
| 3 | **sharpen** | gerund | the next two days *not said here* | razors *= razor* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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