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title: They only had one child, Ibanang Okpong by name, and both the father… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: They only had one child, Ibanang Okpong by name, and both the father and mother were very fond of her. Who acts: people, father. 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 ev
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 79

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They only had one child, Ibanang Okpong by name, and both the father and mother were very fond of her.

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**Who acts:** people, father · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** one child

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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 (people, 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:pg70959:14:79
# text = They only had one child, Ibanang Okpong by name, and both the father and mother were very fond of her.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Ibanang	Ibanang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	Okpong	Okpong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | people | one child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | both father and mother |  |  |  |  | of mother; fond *property* | 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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