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title: So Iza Kakem, having looked over all the animals, selected a monkey,… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: So Iza Kakem, having looked over all the animals, selected a monkey, and took it to the bush shelter where she was sleeping, and cooked and eat it. Who acts: Iza. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Pytho
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 42

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So Iza Kakem, having looked over all the animals, selected a monkey, and took it to the bush shelter where she was sleeping, and cooked and eat it.

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**Who acts:** Iza · **What happens:** look, select, take, sleep, cook, eat · **To what, where:** Iza, monkey, bush shelter

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iza), 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:pg70959:25:42
# text = So Iza Kakem, having looked over all the animals, selected a monkey, and took it to the bush shelter where she was sleeping, and cooked and eat it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
2	Iza	Iza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	Kakem	Kakem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	bush	bush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund · perfect |  | Iza *not said here* |  |  |  | over all animals | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over animal=Theme |
| 2 | **select** | past | Iza | a monkey |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | Iza *not said here* | monkey |  | the bush shelter |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shelter=Destination |
| 4 | **sleep** | past · progressive | Iza |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cook** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive |  | monkey |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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