--- title: Then ’Ndere caught two of the fish with her basket, and took them ho… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Then ’Ndere caught two of the fish with her basket, and took them home and cooked them for food, but none of the girls in the house would eat them, as they all said that if they did so they would die. ’ Who acts: Ndere, none, people. 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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 (Ndere, none, people), 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:pg70959:25:13 # text = Then ’Ndere caught two of the fish with her basket, and took them home and cooked them for food, but none of the girls in the house would eat them, as they all said that if they did so they would die. ’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 ’ ' PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Ndere Ndere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 home home ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 cooked cook VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 32 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past | Ndere | two of the fish with fish's basket | | | then | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | Ndere *not said here* | people | | | | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **cook** | past | Ndere *not said here* | people | | | | for food | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for food=Beneficiary | | 4 | **eat** | would | none of the girls in the house | people | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | people | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **die** | would | people | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/14/) - ↑ back to [Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/)