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title: One after the other the people crossed over the river on the spider’… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: One after the other the people crossed over the river on the spider’s web quite safely, until at last there were only left Essama and her brother. Who acts: One. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 48

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One after the other the people crossed over the river on the spider’s web quite safely, until at last there were only left Essama and her brother.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** cross, leave · **To what, where:** river, Essama, last

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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 (One), 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:pg70959:26:48
# text = One after the other the people crossed over the river on the spider’s web quite safely, until at last there were only left Essama and her brother.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
26	Essama	Essama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | One after the other |  |  | the river |  | on the spider's web; the people *nsubj*; safely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **leave** | past · passive |  | Essama and ESSAMA's brother |  | last |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: essama=Theme at last=Location |

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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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