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title: And as it was then dark the hare’s wife lit the lamp,[10] but the ha… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: And as it was then dark the hare’s wife lit the lamp,[10] but the hare hid his tail in the darkness so that his wife could not see it, as the wound had not healed up. Who acts: chief, hare, wife. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Yo
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 51

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And as it was then dark the hare’s wife lit the lamp,\[10\] but the hare hid his tail in the darkness so that his wife could not see it, as the wound had not healed up.

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**Who acts:** chief, hare, wife · **What happens:** be, light, hide, not see, not heal up · **To what, where:** lamp, tail, darkness, wound

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, hare, wife), 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:pg70959:19:51
# text = And as it was then dark the hare’s wife lit the lamp,[10] but the hare hid his tail in the darkness so that his wife could not see it, as the wound had not healed up.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
11	lit	light	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | chief |  |  |  | then | the hare's wife *nsubj*; dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **light** | past |  | the lamp |  |  |  | 10 *obl* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product |
| 3 | **hide** | past | the hare | hare's tail |  | the darkness |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tail=Patient in darkness=Location |
| 4 | **not** **see** | could | hare's wife | tail |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **heal up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wound |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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