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title: Then Igiri said, “How I do wish that this mushroom would turn into a… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Igiri said, “How I do wish that this mushroom would turn into a boy baby, which we want so badly.” Who acts: Igiri, mushroom, we. 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
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 89

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Then Igiri said, “How I do wish that this mushroom would turn into a boy baby, which we want so badly.”

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**Who acts:** Igiri, mushroom, we · **What happens:** say, wish, turn, want · **To what, where:** boy baby · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, mushroom, we), 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:pg70959:4:90
# text = Then Igiri said, “How I do wish that this mushroom would turn into a boy baby, which we want so badly.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Igiri	Igiri	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Igiri |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Igiri |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **turn** *in a quote* | would | this mushroom |  |  | a boy baby |  | badly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into baby=Trajectory |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | we | a boy baby |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |

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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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