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title: One day, while Agbor and his slave Edim were absent in the bush hunt… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, while Agbor and his slave Edim were absent in the bush hunting, one of Awo’s daughters opened the cage and let the bird fly away. Who acts: Agbor, One day, bird. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed Hi
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 13

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One day, while Agbor and his slave Edim were absent in the bush hunting, one of Awo’s daughters opened the cage and let the bird fly away.

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**Who acts:** Agbor, One day, bird · **What happens:** be, open, let, fly away · **To what, where:** One day, bush hunting, cage, bird

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agbor, One day, bird), 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:pg70959:11:13
# text = One day, while Agbor and his slave Edim were absent in the bush hunting, one of Awo’s daughters opened the cage and let the bird fly away.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	Edim	Edim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Awo	Awo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Agbor and Agbor's slave | One day *not said here* |  | the bush hunting |  | absent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past | One day | the cage |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cage=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | One day *not said here* | the bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly away** | infinitive | the bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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