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title: The brothers and sisters of the girl would be given _tombo_ to drink… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The brothers and sisters of the girl would be given _tombo_ to drink, and in addition the sisters would receive one fathom of cloth each. Who acts: sisters. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 29

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The brothers and sisters of the girl would be given \_tombo\_ to drink, and in addition the sisters would receive one fathom of cloth each.

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**Who acts:** sisters · **What happens:** give, drink, receive · **To what, where:** brothers, one fathom, addition

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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 (sisters), 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:pg70959:1:29
# text = The brothers and sisters of the girl would be given _tombo_ to drink, and in addition the sisters would receive one fathom of cloth each.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tombo	tombo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	fathom	fathom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would · passive |  | the brothers of the girl and sisters |  |  |  | tombo *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient tombo=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **receive** | would | the sisters | one fathom of cloth |  | addition |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fathom=Theme each=Location |

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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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