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title: This movement soon attracted the attention of the cripple, who was l… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: This movement soon attracted the attention of the cripple, who was lying on his back, and he looked up and saw Nara sitting on the branch. Who acts: movement, cripple, Nara. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., with
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 26

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This movement soon attracted the attention of the cripple, who was lying on his back, and he looked up and saw Nara sitting on the branch.

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**Who acts:** movement, cripple, Nara · **What happens:** attract, lie, look up, see, sit, attend · **To what, where:** attention, back, Nara, branch

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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 (movement, cripple, Nara), 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:pg70959:14:26
# text = This movement soon attracted the attention of the cripple, who was lying on his back, and he looked up and saw Nara sitting on the branch.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cripple	cripple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	Nara	Nara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	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 | **attract** | past | this movement | the attention of the cripple |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | past · progressive | the cripple |  |  | movement's back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |
| 3 | **look up** | past | movement |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | movement *not said here* | Nara |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | Nara *not said here* |  |  | the branch |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location |
| 6 | **attend** |  | the cripple |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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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