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title: In connection with these creatures, it is curious to notice the agit… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: In connection with these creatures, it is curious to notice the agitation amongst the birds, should one happen to be disturbed in the day time. Who acts: game, one. 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 128

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In connection with these creatures, it is curious to notice the agitation amongst the birds, should one happen to be disturbed in the day time.

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**Who acts:** game, one · **What happens:** be, notice, happen, disturb · **To what, where:** connection, agitation

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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 (game, one), 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:pg70959:1:128
# text = In connection with these creatures, it is curious to notice the agitation amongst the birds, should one happen to be disturbed in the day time.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	agitation	agitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | game |  |  | connection with this creatures |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **notice** | to-infinitive | game *not said here* | the agitation |  |  |  | amongst the birds | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer agitation=Stimulus |
| 3 | **happen** | should | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **disturb** | to-infinitive · passive | one *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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