--- title: At last, however, as she did not like to hear her little daughter cr… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: At last, however, as she did not like to hear her little daughter crying, Ewa Abagi came out very quickly, helped Essere with the water pot on to her head, and went back again into the river. Who acts: Essere, little daughter, Ewa. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinsto --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/101/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/) / [Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Sp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/) / 101 # Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 101 At last, however, as she did not like to hear her little daughter crying, Ewa Abagi came out very quickly, helped Essere with the water pot on to her head, and went back again into the river. **Who acts:** Essere, little daughter, Ewa · **What happens:** not like, hear, cry, come out, help, go back · **To what, where:** last, little daughter, Essere, river This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Essere, little daughter, Ewa), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg70959:6:101 # text = At last, however, as she did not like to hear her little daughter crying, Ewa Abagi came out very quickly, helped Essere with the water pot on to her head, and went back again into the river. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 crying cry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Ewa Ewa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 Abagi Abagi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 21 out out ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 very very ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 26 Essere Essere PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 38 back back ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Essere | | | last | | however *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Essere *not said here* | Essere's little daughter | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Essere's little daughter *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come out** | past | Ewa | | | | | out, quickly *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **help** | past | | | Essere | | | with the water pot on Essere's head | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent essere=Beneficiary with pot=Theme | | 6 | **go back** | past | | | | the river | again | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/102/) - ↑ back to [Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/)