--- title: Later in the evening the eagle took the hawk to the antelope’s house… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Later in the evening the eagle took the hawk to the antelope’s house and said that as the bush cow had been unable to find him, he was the winner, to which the antelope agreed and paid over the rods to the eagle. Who acts: eagle, antelope. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle, antelope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg70959:23:14 # text = Later in the evening the eagle took the hawk to the antelope’s house and said that as the bush cow had been unable to find him, he was the winner, to which the antelope agreed and paid over the rods to the eagle. 1 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 antelope antelope NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 cop _ _ 24 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 winner winner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 antelope antelope NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 rods rod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the eagle | the hawk | | the antelope's house | evening | late *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme to house=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the eagle *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past · perfect | | | | | | as the bush cow; unable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | | antelope | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | past | antelope | the winner | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the antelope | | | | | which *obl* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **pay** | past | the antelope *not said here* | | | the rods | | to the eagle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/23/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/23/15/) - ↑ back to [Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/23/)