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title: Igiri went on gathering the mushrooms and putting them in her basket… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Igiri went on gathering the mushrooms and putting them in her basket, until at last she came across a very large mushroom which was fat and white. Who acts: Igiri, INKANG, large mushroom. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why t
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 88

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Igiri went on gathering the mushrooms and putting them in her basket, until at last she came across a very large mushroom which was fat and white.

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**Who acts:** Igiri, INKANG, large mushroom · **What happens:** go, gather, put, come, be · **To what, where:** mushrooms, IGIRI, basket, large mushroom, last

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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 (Igiri, INKANG, large mushroom), 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:pg70959:4:89
# text = Igiri went on gathering the mushrooms and putting them in her basket, until at last she came across a very large mushroom which was fat and white.
1	Igiri	Igiri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	across	across	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Igiri |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | gerund | Igiri *not said here* | the mushrooms |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | Igiri *not said here* | IGIRI |  | INKANG's basket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in basket=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | INKANG | a large mushroom |  | last |  | across *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | a large mushroom |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | a large mushroom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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