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title: Very soon after the return of Elili from the grave, Aikor died, leav… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon after the return of Elili from the grave, Aikor died, leaving her daughter Nagor in the charge of Elili and Oga. Who acts: Aikor, Elili. 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 i
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 16

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Very soon after the return of Elili from the grave, Aikor died, leaving her daughter Nagor in the charge of Elili and Oga.

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**Who acts:** Aikor, Elili · **What happens:** die, leave, return, charge · **To what, where:** daughter, charge, grave, Elili

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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 (Aikor, Elili), 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:pg70959:5:16
# text = Very soon after the return of Elili from the grave, Aikor died, leaving her daughter Nagor in the charge of Elili and Oga.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Elili	Elili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Aikor	Aikor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	Nagor	Nagor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Elili	Elili	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Aikor |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | Aikor *not said here* | Aikor's daughter |  | the charge of Elili and Oga |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in charge=Location |
| 3 | **return** |  | Elili |  |  | the grave |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent from=place |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | Elili and Oga |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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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