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title: IKOM FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA. — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: IKOM FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA. 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 2

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IKOM FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

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**To what, where:** FOLK STORIES

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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: 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:pg70959:1:2
# text = IKOM FOLK STORIES FROM SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
1	IKOM	IKOM	PROPN	ADD	_	3	nsubj	_	_
2	FOLK	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	STORIES	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	FROM	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	SOUTHERN	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	NIGERIA	NIGERIA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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