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title: Very soon the owner of the farm, thinking he would like to grow some… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon the owner of the farm, thinking he would like to grow some of these big Inde yams, took the yam up and, having cut it, planted it in the ground. Who acts: owner. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So St
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 28

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Very soon the owner of the farm, thinking he would like to grow some of these big Inde yams, took the yam up and, having cut it, planted it in the ground.

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**Who acts:** owner · **What happens:** think, like, grow, take up, have, cut · **To what, where:** some, yam, ground · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner), 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:pg70959:15:28
# text = Very soon the owner of the farm, thinking he would like to grow some of these big Inde yams, took the yam up and, having cut it, planted it in the ground.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Inde	Inde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	yams	yam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	yam	yam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
29	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the owner of the farm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | would | owner |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | owner *not said here* | some of this big Inde yams |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location some=Theme |
| 4 | **take up** | past | the owner of the farm | the yam |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yam=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | the owner of the farm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cut** | infinitive | the owner of the farm *not said here* | yam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 7 | **plant** | past | the owner of the farm *not said here* | yam |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in ground=Destination |

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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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