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title: Chief Nyip was delighted to get his favourite wife back again, and t… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Chief Nyip was delighted to get his favourite wife back again, and they lived together as they had done before. Who acts: Chief, wives. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., with its dependen
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 15

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Chief Nyip was delighted to get his favourite wife back again, and they lived together as they had done before.

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**Who acts:** Chief, wives · **What happens:** be, get, live together, do · **To what, where:** favourite wife

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, wives), 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:pg70959:5:15
# text = Chief Nyip was delighted to get his favourite wife back again, and they lived together as they had done before.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Nyip	Nyip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | Chief |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* | Chief's favourite wife |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
| 3 | **live together** | past | wives *= wife* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | wives *= wife* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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