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title: Agbor was a hunter and a trapper, and it was his custom to set traps… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Agbor was a hunter and a trapper, and it was his custom to set traps all along the road to the boundary where the Okuni farms joined up with Insofan. Who acts: Agbor, trapper. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Kill
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 2

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Agbor was a hunter and a trapper, and it was his custom to set traps all along the road to the boundary where the Okuni farms joined up with Insofan.

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**Who acts:** Agbor, trapper · **What happens:** be, set, join up · **To what, where:** hunter, custom, traps, Okuni farms

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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, trapper), 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:pg70959:11:2
# text = Agbor was a hunter and a trapper, and it was his custom to set traps all along the road to the boundary where the Okuni farms joined up with Insofan.
1	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trapper	trapper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
28	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Insofan	Insofan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Agbor | a hunter and a trapper |  |  |  | a trapper *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | trapper | Agbor's custom |  |  |  | Agbor *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | Agbor *not said here* | traps |  |  |  | to the boundary; the road *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme road=Destination |
| 4 | **join up** | participle |  | the Okuni farms *not said here* |  |  |  | with Insofan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with insofan=Co-Patient |

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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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