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title: Later on the general supply of food was passed round, a certain amou… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Later on the general supply of food was passed round, a certain amount being set on one side for the strangers. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 12

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Later on the general supply of food was passed round, a certain amount being set on one side for the strangers.

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**What happens:** pass round, set · **To what, where:** general supply, certain amount, one side

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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: 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:pg70959:6:12
# text = Later on the general supply of food was passed round, a certain amount being set on one side for the strangers.
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	round	round	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass round** | past · passive |  |  |  | the general supply of food |  | a certain amount *parataxis*; late, round *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: on supply=Location |
| 2 | **set** | gerund · passive |  | a certain amount *not said here* |  | one side |  | for the strangers | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on side=Destination |

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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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