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title: He was a good dancer, drum-beater and singer, and these qualities, c… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a good dancer, drum-beater and singer, and these qualities, combined with his good looks and fine manly beauty, won him the admiration of many of the young Okuni girls. Who acts: NYAMBI, qualities. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edi
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 65

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He was a good dancer, drum-beater and singer, and these qualities, combined with his good looks and fine manly beauty, won him the admiration of many of the young Okuni girls.

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**Who acts:** NYAMBI, qualities · **What happens:** be, combine, win, admire · **To what, where:** good dancer, qualities, admiration, NYAMBI, many young Okuni girls

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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 (NYAMBI, qualities), 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:pg70959:17:65
# text = He was a good dancer, drum-beater and singer, and these qualities, combined with his good looks and fine manly beauty, won him the admiration of many of the young Okuni girls.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dancer	dancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	beater	beater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
27	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | NYAMBI | a good dancer |  |  |  | drum beater and singer *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **combine** | participle |  | this qualities *not said here* |  |  |  | with NYAMBI's good looks and fine manly beauty | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with look=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **win** | past | this qualities | the admiration of the many young Okuni girls | NYAMBI |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary admiration=Theme |
| 4 | **admire** |  |  | the many young Okuni girls |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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