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description: This would, however, involve a larger expenditure of time than I have at my disposal. Who acts: This, I. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 100

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This would, however, involve a larger expenditure of time than I have at my disposal.

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**Who acts:** This, I · **What happens:** involve, have, expend · **To what, where:** larger expenditure, time, disposal

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, I), 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:pg70959:1:100
# text = This would, however, involve a larger expenditure of time than I have at my disposal.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	involve	involve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	expenditure	expenditure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	disposal	disposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **involve** | would | This | a larger expenditure of time |  |  |  | however *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expenditure=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | time *not said here* |  | my disposal |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient |
| 3 | **expend** |  |  | time |  |  |  |  | nom expenditure «possession transitive»: of=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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