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title: The young men at once dived in and searched everywhere, but could no… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The young men at once dived in and searched everywhere, but could not find any trace of Ode. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 52

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The young men at once dived in and searched everywhere, but could not find any trace of Ode.

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**What happens:** dive in, search, not find · **To what, where:** young men, trace

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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: 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:pg70959:26:52
# text = The young men at once dived in and searched everywhere, but could not find any trace of Ode.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	dived	dive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	searched	search	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Ode	Ode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive in** | participle · passive |  | the young men |  |  |  | once *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **search** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could |  | any trace of Ode |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |

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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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