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title: The hare then stood up in the doorway, facing his wife, and calling… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The hare then stood up in the doorway, facing his wife, and calling her by name said, “Ekanga, where are you going with that load? Who acts: hare, calling, you. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 65

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The hare then stood up in the doorway, facing his wife, and calling her by name said, “Ekanga, where are you going with that load?

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**Who acts:** hare, calling, you · **What happens:** stand up, face, call, say, go · **To what, where:** doorway, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (hare, calling, you), 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:pg70959:19:65
# text = The hare then stood up in the doorway, facing his wife, and calling her by name said, “Ekanga, where are you going with that load?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	facing	face	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Ekanga	Ekanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | the hare |  |  | the doorway | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
| 2 | **face** | gerund | the hare *not said here* |  | hare's wife |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wife=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | gerund |  |  | wife |  |  | by name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | calling |  |  |  |  | Ekanga *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | with that load | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with load=Beneficiary |

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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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