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title: One be mammie piccane they call ’im Awa, she fine too much, when she… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: One be mammie piccane they call ’im Awa, she fine too much, when she done grow I marry her proper and take her brother Abassi for make my head boy. Who acts: brothers, Okon. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 64

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One be mammie piccane they call ’im Awa, she fine too much, when she done grow I marry her proper and take her brother Abassi for make my head boy.

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**Who acts:** brothers, Okon · **What happens:** be, call, fine, do, grow, marry · **To what, where:** One mammie piccane, ’, much, I, Okon, brother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brothers, Okon), 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:pg70959:1:64
# text = One be mammie piccane they call ’im Awa, she fine too much, when she done grow I marry her proper and take her brother Abassi for make my head boy.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	mammie	mammie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	piccane	piccane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	’	'	X	GW	_	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	im	im	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Awa	Awa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fine	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	Abassi	Abassi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | One mammie piccane |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present | brothers *= brother* | ’  im Awa |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent '=Recipient |
| 3 | **fine** | past | Okon | much |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | past | Okon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | infinitive | Okon *not said here* | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **marry** | infinitive | Okon *not said here* | Okon |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 7 | **take** | infinitive | Okon *not said here* |  | Okon's brother |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Destination |
| 8 | **make** | infinitive | Okon *not said here* | my head boy |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boy=Product |

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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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