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title: If so, let the fire you are holding go out,” and the fire went out a… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: If so, let the fire you are holding go out,” and the fire went out at once. Who acts: you, fire. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 23

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If so, let the fire you are holding go out,” and the fire went out at once.

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**Who acts:** you, fire · **What happens:** let, hold, go out · **To what, where:** fire

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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 (you, fire), 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:pg70959:3:23
# text = If so, let the fire you are holding go out,” and the fire went out at once.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | present · progressive | you | the fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go out** *in a quote* | past | the fire |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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