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title: At last the people offered him a large basket of eggs, whereupon the… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the people offered him a large basket of eggs, whereupon the hawk immediately closed the bargain, handed over Agbor to his mother, and flew away with the basket of eggs in his claws. Who acts: last people, hawk. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 47

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At last the people offered him a large basket of eggs, whereupon the hawk immediately closed the bargain, handed over Agbor to his mother, and flew away with the basket of eggs in his claws.

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**Who acts:** last people, hawk · **What happens:** offer, close, hand, fly away · **To what, where:** large basket, HAWK, bargain, mother, Agbor, claws

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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 (last people, hawk), 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:pg70959:3:47
# text = At last the people offered him a large basket of eggs, whereupon the hawk immediately closed the bargain, handed over Agbor to his mother, and flew away with the basket of eggs in his claws.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | past | the last people | a large basket of eggs | HAWK |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal basket=Theme |
| 2 | **close** | past | the hawk | the bargain |  |  |  | immediately, whereupon *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Patient |
| 3 | **hand** | participle |  | the bargain *not said here* | HAWK's mother | Agbor |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mother=Destination |
| 4 | **fly away** | past |  |  |  | HAWK's claws |  | with the basket of eggs; away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in claw=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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