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title: She was a fine well-made woman, and the chief was so fond of her tha… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: She was a fine well-made woman, and the chief was so fond of her that he would not have any other wives. Who acts: INKANG, chief, BECAME. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., with its depende
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 81

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She was a fine well-made woman, and the chief was so fond of her that he would not have any other wives.

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**Who acts:** INKANG, chief, BECAME · **What happens:** be, make, not have · **To what, where:** other wives

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (INKANG, chief, BECAME), 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:pg70959:4:82
# text = She was a fine well-made woman, and the chief was so fond of her that he would not have any other wives.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | INKANG |  |  |  |  | made woman *parataxis*; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | past | the chief |  |  |  |  | of INKANG; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **have** | would | BECAME | any other wives |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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