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title: The same thing happened every night until the hare had eaten all the… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The same thing happened every night until the hare had eaten all the young alligators except the one he had painted and showed to the parents each morning. Who acts: same thing, thing. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 37

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The same thing happened every night until the hare had eaten all the young alligators except the one he had painted and showed to the parents each morning.

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**Who acts:** same thing, thing · **What happens:** happen, eat, paint, show · **To what, where:** hare, one, parents

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same thing, thing), 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:pg70959:16:37
# text = The same thing happened every night until the hare had eaten all the young alligators except the one he had painted and showed to the parents each morning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	alligators	alligator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	except	except	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	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 | **happen** | past | the same thing |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past · perfect · passive |  | the hare |  |  |  | except the one; all young alligators *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **paint** | past · perfect | thing | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Destination |
| 4 | **show** | past |  |  | the parents |  | morning |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to parent=Recipient |

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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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