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title: He also used to bring some bush mangoes with him as well, as they we… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: He also used to bring some bush mangoes with him as well, as they were useful for making soup. Who acts: Ogbaja, some, mangoes. 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 eve
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 7

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He also used to bring some bush mangoes with him as well, as they were useful for making soup.

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**Who acts:** Ogbaja, some, mangoes · **What happens:** use, bring, bush, be, make · **To what, where:** mangoes, soup

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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 (Ogbaja, some, mangoes), 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:pg70959:14:7
# text = He also used to bring some bush mangoes with him as well, as they were useful for making soup.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bush	bush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	mangoes	mango	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Ogbaja |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | Ogbaja *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bush** | present | some | mangoes |  |  |  | with Ogbaja | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | mangoes *= mango* |  |  |  |  | useful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | mangoes *= mango* *not said here* | soup |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product |

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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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