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title: [9] “’Nda” in the Infor and Inde languages means “elephantiasis.” — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: [9] “’Nda” in the Infor and Inde languages means “elephantiasis.” Who acts: 9. 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 30

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\[9\] “’Nda” in the Infor and Inde languages means “elephantiasis.”

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**Who acts:** 9 · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** elephantiasis

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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 (9), 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:pg70959:29:30
# text = [9] “’Nda” in the Infor and Inde languages means “elephantiasis.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	X	GW	_	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Nda	Nda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	Infor	Infor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Inde	Inde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	elephantiasis	elephantiasis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | 9  ’  Nda in the Infor languages | elephantiasis |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephantiasis=Topic |

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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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