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title: III.--THE STORY OF IGIRI AND HER HUSBAND INKANG, WHO BROUGHT UP A MU… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: III.--THE STORY OF IGIRI AND HER HUSBAND INKANG, WHO BROUGHT UP A MUSHROOM BABY BOY, AND WHAT BECAME OF HIM. Who acts: HUSBAND. 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 tree a
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 79

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III.--THE STORY OF IGIRI AND HER HUSBAND INKANG, WHO BROUGHT UP A MUSHROOM BABY BOY, AND WHAT BECAME OF HIM.

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**Who acts:** HUSBAND · **What happens:** bring up · **To what, where:** MUSHROOM, III

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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 (HUSBAND), 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:pg70959:4:80
# text = III.--THE STORY OF IGIRI AND HER HUSBAND INKANG, WHO BROUGHT UP A MUSHROOM BABY BOY, AND WHAT BECAME OF HIM.
1	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	STORY	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	IGIRI	IGIRI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	HER	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	HUSBAND	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	INKANG	INKANG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	WHO	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	BROUGHT	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	UP	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	MUSHROOM	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	BABY	BABY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	BOY	BOY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	WHAT	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	parataxis	_	_
23	BECAME	BECAME	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	HIM	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | past | E.D's HUSBAND | a MUSHROOM |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mushroom=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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