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title: They could only hear Agbor Adam’s name being called out. — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: They could only hear Agbor Adam’s name being called out. Who acts: men, Agbor. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 49

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They could only hear Agbor Adam’s name being called out.

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**Who acts:** men, Agbor · **What happens:** hear, call out, name · **To what, where:** name

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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 (men, Agbor), 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:pg70959:25:49
# text = They could only hear Agbor Adam’s name being called out.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | could | men *= man* | Agbor's name |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund · passive |  | Agbor's name *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **name** |  | Agbor |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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