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description: (The author has killed seven at one shot, with number 6 from a full choke 12-bore, at the particular request of a chief who wanted them for food.) Who acts: chief. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 125

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(The author has killed seven at one shot, with number 6 from a full choke 12-bore, at the particular request of a chief who wanted them for food.)

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**Who acts:** chief · **What happens:** kill, want, request · **To what, where:** author, particular request, chiefs, chief

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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 (chief), 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:pg70959:1:125
# text = (The author has killed seven at one shot, with number 6 from a full choke 12-bore, at the particular request of a chief who wanted them for food.)
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	choke	choke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	12-bore	12-bore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive |  | the author |  | the particular request of a chief |  | with number from a full choke 12-bore; seven *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer seven=Result |
| 2 | **want** | past | a chief | chiefs *= chief* |  |  |  | for food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 3 | **request** |  |  | a chief |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication 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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