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description: Chief ’Njum agreed that this was a good plan, and commenced making preparations for the feast. Who acts: Njum, this. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 47

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Chief ’Njum agreed that this was a good plan, and commenced making preparations for the feast.

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**Who acts:** Njum, this · **What happens:** agree, be, commence, make · **To what, where:** good plan, preparations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Njum, this), 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:pg70959:14:47
# text = Chief ’Njum agreed that this was a good plan, and commenced making preparations for the feast.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	’	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Njum	Njum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	commenced	commence	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Chief's Njum |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | a good plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **commence** | past | Chief's Njum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Chief's Njum *not said here* | preparations |  |  |  | for the feast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for feast=Asset |

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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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