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title: The hawks still continue to kill the chickens, but the cocks and hen… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The hawks still continue to kill the chickens, but the cocks and hens always run and take shelter when they see the hawk coming. Who acts: hawks, cocks, hawk. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 41

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The hawks still continue to kill the chickens, but the cocks and hens always run and take shelter when they see the hawk coming.

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**Who acts:** hawks, cocks, hawk · **What happens:** continue, kill, run, take, see, come · **To what, where:** chickens, shelter, hawk

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hawks, cocks, hawk), 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:pg70959:23:41
# text = The hawks still continue to kill the chickens, but the cocks and hens always run and take shelter when they see the hawk coming.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	continue	continue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cocks	cock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | present | the hawks |  |  |  | still |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | the hawks *not said here* | the chickens |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | present | the cocks and hens |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | present | the hawks *not said here* | shelter |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | present | cocks *= cock* | the hawk |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hawk=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** | gerund | the hawk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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