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title: Agbor bore all the ill-treatment she received without complaining, a… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Agbor bore all the ill-treatment she received without complaining, and although her husband gave her no money (rods) or food, she remained faithful to him. Who acts: Agbor, chief, husband. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 4

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Agbor bore all the ill-treatment she received without complaining, and although her husband gave her no money (rods) or food, she remained faithful to him.

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**Who acts:** Agbor, chief, husband · **What happens:** bear, receive, complain, give, remain · **To what, where:** ill treatment, money, chief, Agbor

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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, chief, husband), 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:pg70959:8:4
# text = Agbor bore all the ill-treatment she received without complaining, and although her husband gave her no money (rods) or food, she remained faithful to him.
1	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 | **bear** | past | Agbor | all ill treatment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Patient |
| 2 | **receive** | past | chief | all ill treatment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatment=Theme |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | chief's husband | no money or food | chief |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient money=Theme |
| 5 | **remain** | past | chief |  | Agbor |  |  | faithful *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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