---
title: It is also extremely doubtful whether brass rods, which are mentione… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: It is also extremely doubtful whether brass rods, which are mentioned so frequently, existed at the date of many of the stories. Who acts: translation. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/107/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/) / [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/) / 107

# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 107

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is also extremely doubtful whether brass rods, which are mentioned so frequently, existed at the date of many of the stories.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** translation · **What happens:** be, mention, exist · **To what, where:** brass rods, date

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (translation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg70959:1:107
# text = It is also extremely doubtful whether brass rods, which are mentioned so frequently, existed at the date of many of the stories.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | translation |  |  |  |  | whether brass rods; doubtful, extremely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | brass rods |  |  |  | frequently *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **exist** | participle |  |  |  | the date of many of the stories |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at date=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/106/)
- next →: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/108/)
- ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/)