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title: Akoba had very large breasts, which hung down, but this did not in a… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Akoba had very large breasts, which hung down, but this did not in any way spoil her beauty in the young men’s eyes. Who acts: Akoba, large breasts, this. 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.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 56

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Akoba had very large breasts, which hung down, but this did not in any way spoil her beauty in the young men’s eyes.

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**Who acts:** Akoba, large breasts, this · **What happens:** have, hang down, spoil · **To what, where:** large breasts, beauty, eyes

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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 (Akoba, large breasts, this), 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:pg70959:5:56
# text = Akoba had very large breasts, which hung down, but this did not in any way spoil her beauty in the young men’s eyes.
1	Akoba	Akoba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Akoba | large breasts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Patient |
| 2 | **hang down** | past | large breasts |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spoil** | past · do-support | this | Akoba's beauty |  | the young men's eyes |  | any way *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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