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title: 1.--CHIEF INDOMA OF INKUM, SON OF THE POWERFUL CHIEF INDOMA, ABOUT W… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: 1.--CHIEF INDOMA OF INKUM, SON OF THE POWERFUL CHIEF INDOMA, ABOUT WHOM SEVERAL STORIES ARE TOLD. 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 4

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1.--CHIEF INDOMA OF INKUM, SON OF THE POWERFUL CHIEF INDOMA, ABOUT WHOM SEVERAL STORIES ARE TOLD.

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**What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** CHIEF INDOMA, 1 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg70959:28:4
# text = 1.--CHIEF INDOMA OF INKUM, SON OF THE POWERFUL CHIEF INDOMA, ABOUT WHOM SEVERAL STORIES ARE TOLD.
1	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	CHIEF	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	INDOMA	INDOMA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	INKUM	INKUM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	SON	SON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
9	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	POWERFUL	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	CHIEF	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	INDOMA	INDOMA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	ABOUT	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	WHOM	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	SEVERAL	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	STORIES	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	ARE	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	TOLD	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | CHIEF INDOMA of INKUM |  |  |  | SON of INDOMA  the POWERFUL CHIEF *obl*; WHOM *obl*; SEVERAL STORIES *nsubj:pass* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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