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title: When the food was sufficiently cooked the fighting men eat it, and t… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When the food was sufficiently cooked the fighting men eat it, and then, after drinking plenty of tombo, went to bed. Who acts: fighting men. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., with its dependency tree
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 58

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When the food was sufficiently cooked the fighting men eat it, and then, after drinking plenty of tombo, went to bed.

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**Who acts:** fighting men · **What happens:** cook, eat, drink, go · **To what, where:** food, plenty, bed

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fighting 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:pg70959:7:58
# text = When the food was sufficiently cooked the fighting men eat it, and then, after drinking plenty of tombo, went to bed.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cooked	cook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
18	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	tombo	tombo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | past · passive |  | the food |  |  |  | sufficiently *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | the fighting men | food |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **drink** | gerund |  | plenty of tombo |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | the fighting men *not said here* |  |  | bed | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |

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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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