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title: I tell ’im for factory and bring tobacco and cloth and gin. — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: I tell ’im for factory and bring tobacco and cloth and gin. 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 66

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I tell ’im for factory and bring tobacco and cloth and gin.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** tell, bring · **To what, where:** ’, tobacco · **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 (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:pg70959:1:66
# text = I tell ’im for factory and bring tobacco and cloth and gin.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	’	'	X	GW	_	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	im	im	X	NN	_	3	goeswith	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gin	gin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | ’ |  |  |  | for factory | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent '=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | I *not said here* | tobacco and cloth and gin |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tobacco=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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