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title: XXXIII.--HOW ESSAMA STOLE HER FATHER’S GOAT IN THE FATTING-HOUSE, AN… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 23

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XXXIII.--HOW ESSAMA STOLE HER FATHER’S GOAT IN THE FATTING-HOUSE, AND HER BROTHER WAS PUNISHED FOR IT.

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**Who acts:** ESSAMA · **What happens:** steal, punish · **To what, where:** XXXIII, FATTING HOUSE, BROTHER

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ESSAMA), 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:pg70959:26:23
# text = XXXIII.--HOW ESSAMA STOLE HER FATHER’S GOAT IN THE FATTING-HOUSE, AND HER BROTHER WAS PUNISHED FOR IT.
1	XXXIII	xxxiii	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	ESSAMA	ESSAMA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	STOLE	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	HER	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	FATHER	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’S	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	GOAT	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	FATTING	fatting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	HOUSE	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	HER	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	BROTHER	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	WAS	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	PUNISHED	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
22	FOR	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	IT	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | ESSAMA | XXXIII |  | the FATTING HOUSE |  | ESSAMA's FATHER's GOAT *obj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goat=Theme |
| 2 | **punish** | past · passive |  | ESSAMA's BROTHER |  |  |  | for house | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient for it=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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