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title: Most of Chief Erim’s wealth was made by selling camwood and the larg… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 83

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Most of Chief Erim’s wealth was made by selling camwood and the large yams grown on his farm.

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**What happens:** make, sell, grow · **To what, where:** Most, camwood, large yams, farm

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg70959:19:83
# text = Most of Chief Erim’s wealth was made by selling camwood and the large yams grown on his farm.
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Erim	Erim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
6	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	camwood	camwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	yams	yam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | Most of Chief's wealth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **sell** | gerund |  | camwood and the large yams |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camwood=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  | the large yams *not said here* |  | Inkum's farm |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on farm=Location |

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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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