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title: 3.--STONE JU-JU AND CARVED WOODEN PILLAR: EGBO HOUSE IN BACKGROUND.] — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: 3.--STONE JU-JU AND CARVED WOODEN PILLAR: EGBO HOUSE IN BACKGROUND.] A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Fig. 2.--carved Wooden Table Used in Ju-ju Dances From Inkum., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--carved Wooden Table Used in Ju-ju Dances From Inkum., sentence 2

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3.--STONE JU-JU AND CARVED WOODEN PILLAR: EGBO HOUSE IN BACKGROUND.\]

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**What happens:** carve · **To what, where:** WOODEN PILLAR, 3

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Fig. 2.--carved Wooden Table Used in Ju-ju Dances From Inkum.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg70959:28:2
# text = 3.--STONE JU-JU AND CARVED WOODEN PILLAR: EGBO HOUSE IN BACKGROUND.]
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.--	.--	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	STONE	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	JU	JU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	JU	JU	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	CARVED	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	WOODEN	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	PILLAR	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	EGBO	EGBO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	HOUSE	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	BACKGROUND	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | past |  | WOODEN PILLAR |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme |

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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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