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title: On reaching the Abum River which is quite close to Insofan, Ewa Abag… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: On reaching the Abum River which is quite close to Insofan, Ewa Abagi went to bathe, and took her little daughter with her, putting down her cloth and beads on the ground. Who acts: Ewa, Abum River. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 77

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On reaching the Abum River which is quite close to Insofan, Ewa Abagi went to bathe, and took her little daughter with her, putting down her cloth and beads on the ground.

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**Who acts:** Ewa, Abum River · **What happens:** reach, be, go, bathe, take, put down · **To what, where:** Abum River, Insofan, little daughter, cloth, ground

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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 (Ewa, Abum River), 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:pg70959:6:77
# text = On reaching the Abum River which is quite close to Insofan, Ewa Abagi went to bathe, and took her little daughter with her, putting down her cloth and beads on the ground.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Abum	Abum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Insofan	Insofan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	Ewa	Ewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	Abagi	Abagi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund | Ewa *not said here* | the Abum River |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Abum River |  | Insofan |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | Ewa |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bathe** | to-infinitive | Ewa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | past | Ewa *not said here* |  | EWA's little daughter |  |  | with EWA | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination |
| 6 | **put down** | gerund | Ewa *not said here* | EWA's cloth and beads |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme on ground=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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