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title: The Okuni and Infoit people call this fungus _oboma_ and the Boki pe… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Okuni and Infoit people call this fungus _oboma_ and the Boki people _katium_. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 14

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The Okuni and Infoit people call this fungus \_oboma\_ and the Boki people \_katium\_.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Okuni · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg70959:29:14
# text = The Okuni and Infoit people call this fungus _oboma_ and the Boki people _katium_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Infoit	Infoit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	oboma	oboma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Boki	Boki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	katium	katium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | people | the Okuni and Infoit |  |  |  | this fungus *obj*; oboma and the Boki people and katium *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fungus=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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