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title: He chose the hawk to represent the birds, and the antelope selected… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: He chose the hawk to represent the birds, and the antelope selected the bush cow on the animals’ side. Who acts: king, antelope. 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., with its dependenc
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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 8

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He chose the hawk to represent the birds, and the antelope selected the bush cow on the animals’ side.

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**Who acts:** king, antelope · **What happens:** choose, represent, select · **To what, where:** hawk, birds, bush cow, side

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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 (king, antelope), 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:pg70959:23:8
# text = He chose the hawk to represent the birds, and the antelope selected the bush cow on the animals’ side.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | king | the hawk |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme |
| 2 | **represent** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the birds |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme |
| 3 | **select** | past | the antelope | the bush cow |  | the animals's side |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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