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title: XXXII.--HOW AGBOR ADAM BROKE THE HUNTING LAW OF OKUNI, AND HOW HE WA… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 33

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XXXII.--HOW AGBOR ADAM BROKE THE HUNTING LAW OF OKUNI, AND HOW HE WAS PUNISHED.

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**Who acts:** XXXII · **What happens:** break, punish · **To what, where:** HUNTING LAW, AGBOR

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (XXXII), 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:pg70959:25:33
# text = XXXII.--HOW AGBOR ADAM BROKE THE HUNTING LAW OF OKUNI, AND HOW HE WAS PUNISHED.
1	XXXII	XXXII	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	AGBOR	AGBOR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	ADAM	ADAM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	BROKE	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	HUNTING	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	LAW	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	OKUNI	OKUNI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	WAS	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	PUNISHED	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past | XXXII | the HUNTING LAW of OKUNI |  |  |  | AGBOR *nsubj* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient |
| 2 | **punish** | past · passive |  | AGBOR |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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