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title: The child did not answer, so the slave woman said to her, “Don’t you… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The child did not answer, so the slave woman said to her, “Don’t you be so long another time, or you will get into trouble.” Who acts: child, slave woman, you. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopp
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 98

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The child did not answer, so the slave woman said to her, “Don’t you be so long another time, or you will get into trouble.”

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**Who acts:** child, slave woman, you · **What happens:** not answer, say, not do, be, get · **To what, where:** child, you, long time, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (child, slave woman, you), 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:pg70959:6:98
# text = The child did not answer, so the slave woman said to her, “Don’t you be so long another time, or you will get into trouble.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the child |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the slave woman |  | child |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | the child *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | another long time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  | trouble |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=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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