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title: Ori Namfup’s father then bought two slaves and handed them over to O… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Ori Namfup’s father then bought two slaves and handed them over to Ori’s father, in order to settle the matter and so that there should be no bad feeling between them. Who acts: father. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When A
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 9

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Ori Namfup’s father then bought two slaves and handed them over to Ori’s father, in order to settle the matter and so that there should be no bad feeling between them.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** buy, hand over, settle, be · **To what, where:** two slaves, slaves, father, matter, bad feeling

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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:pg70959:12:9
# text = Ori Namfup’s father then bought two slaves and handed them over to Ori’s father, in order to settle the matter and so that there should be no bad feeling between them.
1	Ori	Ori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Namfup	Namfup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Ori	Ori	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	fixed	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
31	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
33	between	between	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | Ori's father | two slaves |  |  | then |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 2 | **hand over** | past | Ori's father *not said here* | slaves *= slave* | Ori's father |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to father=Destination |
| 3 | **settle** | to-infinitive | Ori's father *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme matter=Location |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive | Ori's father *not said here* | no bad feeling |  |  |  | between slaves *= slave* | tree rules |

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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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