--- title: The child turned out to be a girl, and shortly after her birth, Ewa… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: The child turned out to be a girl, and shortly after her birth, Ewa Abagi bought a young slave woman called Mossim to look after her baby, while she herself went to the different markets trading. Who acts: child, birth, EWA. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, birth, EWA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg70959:6:74 # text = The child turned out to be a girl, and shortly after her birth, Ewa Abagi bought a young slave woman called Mossim to look after her baby, while she herself went to the different markets trading. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 11 shortly shortly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Ewa Ewa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 Abagi Abagi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 bought buy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 Mossim Mossim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 27 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 conj _ _ 34 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 markets market NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 compound _ _ 39 trading trading NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn out** | past | the child | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | a girl | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **buy** | past | child's birth | a young slave woman | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | | a young slave woman *not said here* | | | | Mossim *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | after EWA's baby | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **go** | past | EWA | | | the markets trading | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to trading=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/75/) - ↑ back to [Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/)