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title: The hare then hit the rubber with his disengaged hand as hard as he… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The hare then hit the rubber with his disengaged hand as hard as he was able, and that hand also stuck fast. Who acts: hare, rubber. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., with its dependency t
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 54

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The hare then hit the rubber with his disengaged hand as hard as he was able, and that hand also stuck fast.

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**Who acts:** hare, rubber · **What happens:** hit, disengage, be · **To what, where:** rubber

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, rubber), 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:pg70959:4:54
# text = The hare then hit the rubber with his disengaged hand as hard as he was able, and that hand also stuck fast.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rubber	rubber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	disengaged	disengage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past | the hare | the rubber |  |  | then | with rubber's disengaged hand; hard *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rubber=Patient with hand=Instrument |
| 2 | **disengage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | rubber |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |

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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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