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title: This caused great dissatisfaction, and at last they became so vexed… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: This caused great dissatisfaction, and at last they became so vexed that the Chief of Enfitop gave orders that for the future no more of his boys were to join the Eberambi Society. Who acts: This, members, Chief. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--th
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 8

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This caused great dissatisfaction, and at last they became so vexed that the Chief of Enfitop gave orders that for the future no more of his boys were to join the Eberambi Society.

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**Who acts:** This, members, Chief · **What happens:** cause, become, vex, give, join · **To what, where:** great dissatisfaction, last, orders, Eberambi Society

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, members, Chief), 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:pg70959:7:8
# text = This caused great dissatisfaction, and at last they became so vexed that the Chief of Enfitop gave orders that for the future no more of his boys were to join the Eberambi Society.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dissatisfaction	dissatisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	vexed	vex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	no	no	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Eberambi	Eberambi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past | This | great dissatisfaction |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition dissatisfaction=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past | members *= member* |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vex** | participle | members *= member* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give** | past | the Chief of Enfitop | orders |  |  |  | for the future  that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for future=Asset |
| 5 | **join** | to-infinitive | the Chief of Enfitop *not said here* | the Eberambi Society |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=Patient |

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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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