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title: She then dressed the child and put on the cloth and beads of Ewa Aba… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: She then dressed the child and put on the cloth and beads of Ewa Abagi herself, having just tied up her own clothes into a bundle with some stones and thrown them into the Cross River. Who acts: mother, own clothes. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 84

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She then dressed the child and put on the cloth and beads of Ewa Abagi herself, having just tied up her own clothes into a bundle with some stones and thrown them into the Cross River.

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**Who acts:** mother, own clothes · **What happens:** dress, put, have, tie up, throw · **To what, where:** child, mother, cloth, own clothes, bundle, clothes

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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 (mother, own clothes), 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:pg70959:6:84
# text = She then dressed the child and put on the cloth and beads of Ewa Abagi herself, having just tied up her own clothes into a bundle with some stones and thrown them into the Cross River.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Ewa	Ewa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Abagi	Abagi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past | mother | the child |  |  | then |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | participle | mother *not said here* | mother |  | the cloth and beads of Ewa Abagi |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloth=Destination |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | mother *not said here* | mother's own clothes |  | a bundle |  | with some stones | tree rules |
| 4 | **tie up** | participle | mother's own clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **throw** | participle | mother *not said here* | clothes |  | the Cross River |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into river=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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