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title: Last moon I send him Calabar for my canoe with twenty bag kernel and… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Last moon I send him Calabar for my canoe with twenty bag kernel and one puncheon palm oil. Who acts: I. 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 65

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Last moon I send him Calabar for my canoe with twenty bag kernel and one puncheon palm oil.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** Last moon

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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 (I), 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:pg70959:1:65
# text = Last moon I send him Calabar for my canoe with twenty bag kernel and one puncheon palm oil.
1	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	Calabar	Calabar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	kernel	kernel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	puncheon	puncheon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | I | Last moon |  |  |  | for my canoe with twenty bag kernel and one palm oil; boy *obj*; Calabar *flat* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent moon=Destination he=Theme |

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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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