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title: The chief made a rule that each woman slave should bring him at the… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief made a rule that each woman slave should bring him at the end of every seven days twelve balls or cakes of camwood. Who acts: chief, woman slave. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, wi
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 84

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The chief made a rule that each woman slave should bring him at the end of every seven days twelve balls or cakes of camwood.

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**Who acts:** chief, woman slave · **What happens:** make, bring · **To what, where:** rule, end

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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: who acts (chief, woman slave), 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:pg70959:19:84
# text = The chief made a rule that each woman slave should bring him at the end of every seven days twelve balls or cakes of camwood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	camwood	camwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the chief | a rule |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product |
| 2 | **bring** | should | each woman slave | a rule |  |  | at the end of every seven days and twelve balls or cakes of camwood | Inkum *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme he=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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