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title: Awu was a native woman of Inkum, a town on the right bank of the Cro… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Awu was a native woman of Inkum, a town on the right bank of the Cross River, consisting of five compounds separate one from another by about half a mile of bush. Who acts: Awu, town. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell., with its dependency tre
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 2

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Awu was a native woman of Inkum, a town on the right bank of the Cross River, consisting of five compounds separate one from another by about half a mile of bush.

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**Who acts:** Awu, town · **What happens:** be, consist, separate · **To what, where:** native woman, one

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Awu, town), 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:pg70959:3:2
# text = Awu was a native woman of Inkum, a town on the right bank of the Cross River, consisting of five compounds separate one from another by about half a mile of bush.
1	Awu	Awu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	consisting	consist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	compounds	compound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	separate	separate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	32	det:predet	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Awu | a native woman |  |  |  | of Inkum | tree rules |
| 2 | **consist** | gerund | a town on the right bank of the Cross River *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of five compounds | tree rules |
| 3 | **separate** | present | a town on the right bank of the Cross River | one |  |  |  | by half mile of bush; from another | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient from another=Co-Patient |

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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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