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title: The King then took Edim as one of his boys, and, finding him to be i… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The King then took Edim as one of his boys, and, finding him to be intelligent, made him his head canoe boy. Who acts: King, Edim, finding. 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 depe
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 46

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The King then took Edim as one of his boys, and, finding him to be intelligent, made him his head canoe boy.

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**Who acts:** King, Edim, finding · **What happens:** take, find, be, make · **To what, where:** Edim, canoe boy

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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 (King, Edim, finding), 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:pg70959:5:46
# text = The King then took Edim as one of his boys, and, finding him to be intelligent, made him his head canoe boy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Edim	Edim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	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 | **take** | past | the King | Edim |  |  | then | as one of Edim's boys | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent edim=Theme as one=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | gerund |  | Edim |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Edim *not said here* |  |  |  |  | intelligent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | finding | Edim's canoe boy | Edim |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary boy=Product |

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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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