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title: The latter translation would probably be far nearer to the original… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter translation would probably be far nearer to the original version. Who acts: latter translation. 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 106

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The latter translation would probably be far nearer to the original version.

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**Who acts:** latter translation · **What happens:** be

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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 (latter translation), 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:pg70959:1:106
# text = The latter translation would probably be far nearer to the original version.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the latter translation |  |  |  |  | to the original version; far, near, probably *property* | tree rules |

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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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