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title: LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Br… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 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 7

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LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

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**What happens:** publish · **To what, where:** LONDON

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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: 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:pg70959:1:7
# text = LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
1	LONDON	london	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	PUBLISHED	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	BY	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Royal	Royal	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Anthropological	Anthropological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Institute	Institute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **publish** | participle |  | LONDON *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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