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title: Iya Agagim then went down to the town beach on the Cross River and w… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Iya Agagim then went down to the town beach on the Cross River and washed herself very carefully. Who acts: Iya. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 18

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Iya Agagim then went down to the town beach on the Cross River and washed herself very carefully.

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**Who acts:** Iya · **What happens:** go down, wash · **To what, where:** Iya

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iya), 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:pg70959:9:18
# text = Iya Agagim then went down to the town beach on the Cross River and washed herself very carefully.
1	Iya	Iya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Agagim	Agagim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | Iya |  |  |  | then | to the town beach on the Cross River; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **wash** | past | Iya *not said here* | Iya |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |

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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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