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description: Osewo then called all his sons together and gave each of them a sharp matchet, but to Agberamfe he gave a piece of iron. Who acts: Osewo. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., with its dependency t
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 13

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Osewo then called all his sons together and gave each of them a sharp matchet, but to Agberamfe he gave a piece of iron.

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**Who acts:** Osewo · **What happens:** call, give · **To what, where:** sons, each, piece, Agberamfe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Osewo), 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:pg70959:8:13
# text = Osewo then called all his sons together and gave each of them a sharp matchet, but to Agberamfe he gave a piece of iron.
1	Osewo	Osewo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	matchet	matchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Agberamfe	Agberamfe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Osewo | Osewo's sons |  |  | then | together *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | Osewo *not said here* | each of degrees |  |  |  | a sharp matchet *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient matchet=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | Osewo | a piece of iron | Agberamfe |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to agberamfe=Recipient |

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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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