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title: Now Tawn had a wife called Osegi, who was a very good-natured woman,… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Tawn had a wife called Osegi, who was a very good-natured woman, which was lucky for the grasshopper as things turned out. Who acts: Tawn, wife, good natured woman. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 15

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Now Tawn had a wife called Osegi, who was a very good-natured woman, which was lucky for the grasshopper as things turned out.

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**Who acts:** Tawn, wife, good natured woman · **What happens:** have, call, be, turn out · **To what, where:** wife, good natured woman, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tawn, wife, good natured woman), 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:pg70959:6:15
# text = Now Tawn had a wife called Osegi, who was a very good-natured woman, which was lucky for the grasshopper as things turned out.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tawn	Tawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	Osegi	Osegi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Tawn | a wife |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a wife *not said here* |  |  |  | Osegi *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a wife | a good natured woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | a good natured woman |  |  |  |  | for the grasshopper; as things; lucky *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn out** | participle |  | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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