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title: N.B.--This story was given to me at Akparabong by a native, but ther… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: N.B.--This story was given to me at Akparabong by a native, but there would appear to be some doubt as to whether it is a local story or not. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshoppe
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 66

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N.B.--This story was given to me at Akparabong by a native, but there would appear to be some doubt as to whether it is a local story or not.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** give, appear, be · **To what, where:** N.B, me, Akparabong, doubt

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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 (story), 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:pg70959:6:66
# text = N.B.--This story was given to me at Akparabong by a native, but there would appear to be some doubt as to whether it is a local story or not.
1	N.B	N.B	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Akparabong	Akparabong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | N.B | me | Akparabong |  | by a native; this story *nsubj:pass* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to i=Recipient at akparabong=Asset |
| 2 | **appear** | would |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | some doubt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | story |  |  |  |  | as a local story | 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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