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title: It should be remembered that the feelings of the girl are in no way… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: It should be remembered that the feelings of the girl are in no way considered, and she is handed to the man, as a wife, who is in a position to pay the largest amount of dowry. Who acts: feelings, wife. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with it
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 50

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It should be remembered that the feelings of the girl are in no way considered, and she is handed to the man, as a wife, who is in a position to pay the largest amount of dowry.

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**Who acts:** feelings, wife · **What happens:** remember, be, consider, hand, pay, amount · **To what, where:** much, way, opinion, man, position, largest amount

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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 (feelings, wife), 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:pg70959:1:50
# text = It should be remembered that the feelings of the girl are in no way considered, and she is handed to the man, as a wife, who is in a position to pay the largest amount of dowry.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | should · passive |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the feelings of the girl |  |  | no way |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consider** | participle |  | no way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hand** | present · passive | a wife | opinion | the man |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to man=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | present | a wife |  |  | a position |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive | a wife *not said here* | the largest amount of dowry |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Asset |
| 7 | **amount** |  |  | dowry |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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