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title: My father and father done die and him brother take all them thing; b… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: My father and father done die and him brother take all them thing; but he be big hunter man and no care them goat too much, so he done dash my father. Who acts: brother, piccane. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 61

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My father and father done die and him brother take all them thing; but he be big hunter man and no care them goat too much, so he done dash my father.

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**Who acts:** brother, piccane · **What happens:** do, take, be, dash · **To what, where:** thing, big hunter man, father

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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 (brother, piccane), 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:pg70959:1:61
# text = My father and father done die and him brother take all them thing; but he be big hunter man and no care them goat too much, so he done dash my father.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
9	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
25	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	dash	dash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | My father  piccane and father and done die's brother | all thing |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | piccane | big hunter man and no care  die |  |  |  | goat *nmod*; no care  die *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | past | piccane |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **dash** | infinitive | piccane *not said here* | my father |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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