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title: Then the men went to the home of the big drum with axes, and cut the… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the men went to the home of the big drum with axes, and cut the drum into pieces and carried them to Inkang Ezen’s house. Who acts: men. 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 pra
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 134

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Then the men went to the home of the big drum with axes, and cut the drum into pieces and carried them to Inkang Ezen’s house.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** go, cut, carry · **To what, where:** home, drum, pieces, people, house

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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 (men), 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:pg70959:14:134
# text = Then the men went to the home of the big drum with axes, and cut the drum into pieces and carried them to Inkang Ezen’s house.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	Inkang	Inkang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	Ezen	Ezen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the men |  |  | the home of the big drum with axes | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cut** | infinitive |  | the drum |  | pieces |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent drum=Material into piece=Product |
| 3 | **carry** | past | the men *not said here* | people |  | Inkang's house |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination |

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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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