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title: 3.--SKULLS IN HEAD CHIEF’S HOUSE AT ABRAGHA. — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: 3.--SKULLS IN HEAD CHIEF’S HOUSE AT ABRAGHA. 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 2

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3.--SKULLS IN HEAD CHIEF’S HOUSE AT ABRAGHA.

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**To what, where:** HEAD HOUSE

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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: 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:pg70959:29:2
# text = 3.--SKULLS IN HEAD CHIEF’S HOUSE AT ABRAGHA.
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	SKULLS	skull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	HEAD	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
6	CHIEF	CHIEF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’S	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	HOUSE	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	AT	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ABRAGHA	ABRAGHA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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