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title: The chief’s body was therefore buried without any of the customary f… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief’s body was therefore buried without any of the customary funeral rites, which saved Oga Erim a large amount of money. Who acts: customary funeral rites. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., par
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 41

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The chief’s body was therefore buried without any of the customary funeral rites, which saved Oga Erim a large amount of money.

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**Who acts:** customary funeral rites · **What happens:** bury, save, amount · **To what, where:** body, large amount, Oga, money

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (customary funeral rites), 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:pg70959:20:41
# text = The chief’s body was therefore buried without any of the customary funeral rites, which saved Oga Erim a large amount of money.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	Erim	Erim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past · passive |  | the chief's body |  |  |  | without any of the customary funeral rites; therefore *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | past | the customary funeral rites | a large amount of money | Oga |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent oga=Beneficiary amount=Theme |
| 3 | **amount** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession 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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