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title: There was once a fine strong man living at Okuni, whose name was ’Ny… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: There was once a fine strong man living at Okuni, whose name was ’Nyambi. Who acts: fine strong man, Okuni. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 64

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There was once a fine strong man living at Okuni, whose name was ’Nyambi.

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**Who acts:** fine strong man, Okuni · **What happens:** be, live, name · **To what, where:** Okuni

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine strong man, Okuni), 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:pg70959:17:64
# text = There was once a fine strong man living at Okuni, whose name was ’Nyambi.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
8	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	’	'	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a fine strong man |  |  | there |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | a fine strong man *not said here* |  |  | Okuni |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at okuni=Location |
| 3 | **name** |  | Okuni |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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