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title: When the day of the feast arrived, the seven evil men carried the cr… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When the day of the feast arrived, the seven evil men carried the cripple to the town, and at once began to eat as much as they could, and drank large quantities of the strong tombo. Who acts: day, seven evil men. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 51

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When the day of the feast arrived, the seven evil men carried the cripple to the town, and at once began to eat as much as they could, and drank large quantities of the strong tombo.

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**Who acts:** day, seven evil men · **What happens:** arrive, carry, begin, eat, drink · **To what, where:** cripple, town, much, large quantities

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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 (day, seven evil 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:pg70959:14:51
# text = When the day of the feast arrived, the seven evil men carried the cripple to the town, and at once began to eat as much as they could, and drank large quantities of the strong tombo.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cripple	cripple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	obl	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
34	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	tombo	tombo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the day of the feast |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the seven evil men | the cripple |  | the town |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cripple=Theme to town=Destination |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the seven evil men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the seven evil men *not said here* | much |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 5 | **drink** | past | the seven evil men *not said here* | large quantities of the strong tombo |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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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