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title: Bendega is a town on the right bank of the Afi River, which runs int… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Bendega is a town on the right bank of the Afi River, which runs into the Cross River opposite to Abaragha. Who acts: Bendega, Afi River. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, with its dependency 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 1

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Bendega is a town on the right bank of the Afi River, which runs into the Cross River opposite to Abaragha.

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**Who acts:** Bendega, Afi River · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** town, right bank, River opposite

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bendega, Afi River), 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:pg70959:18:1
# text = Bendega is a town on the right bank of the Afi River, which runs into the Cross River opposite to Abaragha.
1	Bendega	Bendega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Afi	Afi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Abaragha	Abaragha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bendega | a town |  | the right bank of the Afi River |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | present | the Afi River |  |  |  |  | into the River opposite to Abaragha *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into opposite=Result |

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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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