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title: She made most of her money by trading in palm kernels and camwood, b… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: She made most of her money by trading in palm kernels and camwood, but, as she was so popular wherever she went with the young men of the country, she also made a lot of money out of them, as, if they did not pay her well in advance, she would have nothing to do with them. Who acts: EWA, MEN. A sent
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 71

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She made most of her money by trading in palm kernels and camwood, but, as she was so popular wherever she went with the young men of the country, she also made a lot of money out of them, as, if they did not pay her well in advance, she would have nothing to do with them.

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**Who acts:** EWA, MEN · **What happens:** make, trade, be, go, not pay, have · **To what, where:** most, palm kernels, lot, EWA, advance, nothing

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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 (EWA, MEN), 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:pg70959:6:71
# text = She made most of her money by trading in palm kernels and camwood, but, as she was so popular wherever she went with the young men of the country, she also made a lot of money out of them, as, if they did not pay her well in advance, she would have nothing to do with them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	trading	trade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	kernels	kernel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	camwood	camwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	_
22	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
59	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	58	obj	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	acl	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | EWA | most of EWA's money |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Product |
| 2 | **trade** | gerund | EWA *not said here* |  |  | palm kernels and camwood |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | EWA |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | EWA |  |  |  |  | with the young men of the country; wherever *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with man=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **make** | past | EWA | a lot of money |  |  |  | out MEN *= man* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product |
| 6 | **not** **pay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | MEN *= man* | EWA |  | advance |  | well *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Asset |
| 7 | **have** | would | EWA | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | EWA *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | with MEN *= man* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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