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title: _District Commissioner, Southern Nigeria_. — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: _District Commissioner, 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 5

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\_District Commissioner, Southern Nigeria\_.

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**To what, where:** \_ District Commissioner

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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:pg70959:1:5
# text = _District Commissioner, Southern Nigeria_.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	District	District	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Commissioner	Commissioner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Southern	Southern	PROPN	NNP	_	6	flat	_	_
6	Nigeria	Nigeria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	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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