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title: This opinion is influenced to a great extent by the value of the pre… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: This opinion is influenced to a great extent by the value of the presents received from the young man and how much he has helped the parents with their work on the farm. Who acts: parents. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tr
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 48

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This opinion is influenced to a great extent by the value of the presents received from the young man and how much he has helped the parents with their work on the farm.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** influence, receive, help, value, work · **To what, where:** opinion, much, presents, farm

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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 (parents), 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:pg70959:1:48
# text = This opinion is influenced to a great extent by the value of the presents received from the young man and how much he has helped the parents with their work on the farm.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	influenced	influence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **influence** | present · passive |  | this opinion |  |  |  | to a great extent | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **receive** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by the value of the presents; from the young man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from man=Source |
| 3 | **help** | present · perfect · passive |  | much |  |  |  | with parents's work on the farm; man *nsubj*; the parents *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **value** |  |  | the presents |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **work** |  | parents *= parent* |  |  | the farm |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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