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title: Agbor, who was waiting outside, then gave her son some strong tie-ti… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Agbor, who was waiting outside, then gave her son some strong tie-tie which had been made into a running noose. Who acts: Agbor, some. 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 tree
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 39

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Agbor, who was waiting outside, then gave her son some strong tie-tie which had been made into a running noose.

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**Who acts:** Agbor, some · **What happens:** wait, give, tie, make, run · **To what, where:** son, strong tie tie, running noose

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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 (Agbor, some), 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:pg70959:8:39
# text = Agbor, who was waiting outside, then gave her son some strong tie-tie which had been made into a running noose.
1	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
6	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	iobj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tie	tie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	noose	noose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · progressive | Agbor |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Agbor |  | chief's son |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 3 | **tie** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | strong tie tie |  | a running noose |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into noose=Product |
| 5 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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