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title: The indigo black markings last less than a week, and the Okuni peopl… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The indigo black markings last less than a week, and the Okuni people call it _ebim_. Who acts: indigo black markings, Okuni 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
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Fig. 2.--chief Indoma’s Compound., sentence 15

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The indigo black markings last less than a week, and the Okuni people call it \_ebim\_.

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**Who acts:** indigo black markings, Okuni people · **What happens:** last, call · **To what, where:** fungus · **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 (indigo black markings, Okuni 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:pg70959:29:15
# text = The indigo black markings last less than a week, and the Okuni people call it _ebim_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	indigo	indigo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	markings	marking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	last	last	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ebim	ebim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | the indigo black markings |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present | the Okuni people | fungus |  |  |  | ebim *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=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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