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title: VIII.--HOW EWA ABAGI, AN INKUM WOMAN, WAS DROWNED IN THE CROSS RIVER… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: VIII.--HOW EWA ABAGI, AN INKUM WOMAN, WAS DROWNED IN THE CROSS RIVER, AND HOW SHE WAS RESCUED BY THE YOUNG MEN OF INSOFAN. Who acts: YOUNG MEN. 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 de
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 68

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VIII.--HOW EWA ABAGI, AN INKUM WOMAN, WAS DROWNED IN THE CROSS RIVER, AND HOW SHE WAS RESCUED BY THE YOUNG MEN OF INSOFAN.

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**Who acts:** YOUNG MEN · **What happens:** drown, rescue · **To what, where:** EWA, CROSS RIVER

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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: who acts (YOUNG MEN), 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:pg70959:6:68
# text = VIII.--HOW EWA ABAGI, AN INKUM WOMAN, WAS DROWNED IN THE CROSS RIVER, AND HOW SHE WAS RESCUED BY THE YOUNG MEN OF INSOFAN.
1	VIII	VIII	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
5	EWA	EWA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	ABAGI	ABAGI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	AN	AN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	INKUM	INKUM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	WOMAN	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	WAS	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	DROWNED	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	CROSS	CROSS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	RIVER	RIVER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	SHE	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	WAS	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	RESCUED	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
24	BY	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	YOUNG	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	MEN	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	INSOFAN	insofan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | past · passive |  | EWA |  | the CROSS RIVER |  | VIII *obl* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **rescue** | past · passive | the YOUNG MEN of INSOFAN | EWA |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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