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title: The Inkum people came from a country about five or six days’ march n… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Inkum people came from a country about five or six days’ march north-west of the site of their present town, where hares abound. Who acts: Inkum people, five days, hares. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise H
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 75

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The Inkum people came from a country about five or six days’ march north-west of the site of their present town, where hares abound.

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**Who acts:** Inkum people, five days, hares · **What happens:** come, march, abound · **To what, where:** country, west

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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 (Inkum people, five days, hares), 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:pg70959:4:76
# text = The Inkum people came from a country about five or six days’ march north-west of the site of their present town, where hares abound.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	march	march	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	north	north	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	abound	abound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Inkum people |  |  | a country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **march** | present | five days | west of the site of people's present town |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme west=Trajectory |
| 3 | **abound** | present | hares |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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