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title: This story was related by a native of Inkum called Abassi.--[E.D., 2… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: This story was related by a native of Inkum called Abassi.--[E.D., 25.5.10.] Who acts: native, Inkum. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 53

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This story was related by a native of Inkum called Abassi.--\[E.D., 25.5.10.\]

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**Who acts:** native, Inkum · **What happens:** relate, call · **To what, where:** story, native, Abassi · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (native, Inkum), 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:pg70959:3:53
# text = This story was related by a native of Inkum called Abassi.--[E.D., 25.5.10.]
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	native	native	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Abassi	Abassi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	E.D	E.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	25.5.10	25.5.10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | past · passive | a native | this story |  |  |  | E.D *obl* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | Inkum | a native *not said here* | Abassi |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent abassi=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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