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title: She also went from town to town, showing off her beauty, in the hope… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: She also went from town to town, showing off her beauty, in the hopes that some man might fancy her and ask her to marry him. Who acts: Omegha, man. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., with its dependen
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 90

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She also went from town to town, showing off her beauty, in the hopes that some man might fancy her and ask her to marry him.

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**Who acts:** Omegha, man · **What happens:** go, show off, fancy, ask, marry · **To what, where:** town, beauty, hopes, Omegha, man

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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 (Omegha, man), 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:pg70959:7:90
# text = She also went from town to town, showing off her beauty, in the hopes that some man might fancy her and ask her to marry him.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Omegha |  |  | town |  | to town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial\_Location to town=Destination |
| 2 | **show off** | gerund | Omegha *not said here* | Omegha's beauty |  |  |  | in the hopes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient in hope=Topic |
| 3 | **fancy** | might | some man | the hopes |  |  |  | Omegha *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | some man *not said here* |  | Omegha |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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