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title: One day Awu sent her daughter Aro to get her some fire, and Aro, aft… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Awu sent her daughter Aro to get her some fire, and Aro, after wandering about, eventually found herself at the hawk’s house, where she saw Agbor sitting down. Who acts: Awu, Aro, Agbor. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell., with its dep
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 20

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One day Awu sent her daughter Aro to get her some fire, and Aro, after wandering about, eventually found herself at the hawk’s house, where she saw Agbor sitting down.

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**Who acts:** Awu, Aro, Agbor · **What happens:** send, get, wonder, find, see, sit down · **To what, where:** daughter, fire, Aro, house, Agbor

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Awu, Aro, Agbor), 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:pg70959:3:20
# text = One day Awu sent her daughter Aro to get her some fire, and Aro, after wandering about, eventually found herself at the hawk’s house, where she saw Agbor sitting down.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Awu	Awu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	Aro	Aro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	Aro	Aro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
23	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Awu |  | Awu's daughter |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Awu *not said here* | Awu's fire |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Aro |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **find** | past |  | Aro |  | the hawk's house |  | eventually *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at house=Asset |
| 5 | **see** | past | Aro | Agbor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sit down** | gerund | Agbor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fire** |  | Awu |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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