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title: Chief Kaku gave the python one young boy to accompany him back to Ok… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Chief Kaku gave the python one young boy to accompany him back to Okuni, and the following day the python set off on his journey, wearing all his borrowed limbs. Who acts: Chief, python. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’n
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 18

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Chief Kaku gave the python one young boy to accompany him back to Okuni, and the following day the python set off on his journey, wearing all his borrowed limbs.

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**Who acts:** Chief, python · **What happens:** give, accompany, follow, set off, wear, borrow · **To what, where:** python, journey, borrowed limbs

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, python), 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:pg70959:24:18
# text = Chief Kaku gave the python one young boy to accompany him back to Okuni, and the following day the python set off on his journey, wearing all his borrowed limbs.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Kaku	Kaku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Chief | the python |  |  |  | one young boy *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent python=Recipient boy=Theme |
| 2 | **accompany** | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* | python |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **set off** | past | the python |  |  | python's journey | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wear** | gerund | the python *not said here* | python's borrowed limbs |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent limb=Source |
| 6 | **borrow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **journey** |  | python |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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