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title: LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST.… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, W.C. 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 5

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LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, W.C.

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**To what, where:** LONDON

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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:pg70959:29:5
# text = LONDON: HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, W.C.
1	LONDON	london	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	HARRISON	harrison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	SONS	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	PRINTERS	printer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ORDINARY	ordinary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	MAJESTY	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	ST.	ST.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	MARTIN	MARTIN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’S	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	LANE	LANE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	W.C	W.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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