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title: But Agberamfe very soon undid the fastening and got out, closing the… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: But Agberamfe very soon undid the fastening and got out, closing the door behind him. Who acts: Agberamfe. 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 and the pragmatics of every
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 59

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But Agberamfe very soon undid the fastening and got out, closing the door behind him.

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**Who acts:** Agberamfe · **What happens:** undo, get out, close · **To what, where:** fastening, door

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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 (Agberamfe), 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:pg70959:8:59
# text = But Agberamfe very soon undid the fastening and got out, closing the door behind him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Agberamfe	Agberamfe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	undid	undo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fastening	fastening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	closing	close	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undo** | past | Agberamfe | the fastening |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fastening=Patient |
| 2 | **get out** | past | Agberamfe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **close** | gerund | Agberamfe *not said here* | the door |  |  |  | behind Agberamfe | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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