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title: He sent messages by these men to ’Ndere, telling her to do everythin… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: He sent messages by these men to ’Ndere, telling her to do everything her husband told her to do, and that when the time arrived for making the new farms he would have the python killed, and she could then come and marry him. Who acts: python, telling, that, Ndere. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories f
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 71

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He sent messages by these men to ’Ndere, telling her to do everything her husband told her to do, and that when the time arrived for making the new farms he would have the python killed, and she could then come and marry him.

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**Who acts:** python, telling, that, Ndere · **What happens:** send, ', tell, do, arrive, make · **To what, where:** messages, Ndere, everything, new farms, python · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., 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 (python, telling, that, Ndere), 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:pg70959:24:71
# text = He sent messages by these men to ’Ndere, telling her to do everything her husband told her to do, and that when the time arrived for making the new farms he would have the python killed, and she could then come and marry him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	’	'	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Ndere	Ndere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
45	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | python | messages |  |  |  | by this men | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 2 | **'** | infinitive | python *not said here* | Ndere |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | Ndere |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | everything |  |  |  | Ndere's husband *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | telling |  | Ndere |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | telling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **arrive** | past | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | gerund | that *not said here* | the new farms |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset farm=Product |
| 9 | **have** | would | python |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **kill** | past | the python |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 11 | **come** | could | Ndere |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **marry** | infinitive | Ndere *not said here* | python |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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