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title: At last she conceived, and when she was about eight months gone with… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she conceived, and when she was about eight months gone with child she happened one day to go into the forest to gather firewood to cook her morning food. Who acts: Awu. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell., with its dependency tree and 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 9

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At last she conceived, and when she was about eight months gone with child she happened one day to go into the forest to gather firewood to cook her morning food.

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**Who acts:** Awu · **What happens:** conceive, be, happen, go, gather, cook · **To what, where:** forest, firewood, morning food

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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), 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:pg70959:3:9
# text = At last she conceived, and when she was about eight months gone with child she happened one day to go into the forest to gather firewood to cook her morning food.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceive** | past | Awu |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Awu |  |  |  |  | with child; go *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | past | Awu |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | Awu *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **gather** | to-infinitive | Awu *not said here* | firewood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cook** | to-infinitive | Awu *not said here* | Awu's morning food |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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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