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title: But when the morning came Agberamfe greeted the leopard as usual, mu… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the morning came Agberamfe greeted the leopard as usual, much to his surprise. Who acts: morning, leopard. 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
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 62

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But when the morning came Agberamfe greeted the leopard as usual, much to his surprise.

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**Who acts:** morning, leopard · **What happens:** come, greet, surprise · **To what, where:** leopard

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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 (morning, leopard), 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:pg70959:8:62
# text = But when the morning came Agberamfe greeted the leopard as usual, much to his surprise.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
6	Agberamfe	Agberamfe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
7	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the morning |  |  |  |  | Agberamfe *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past |  |  | the leopard |  |  | as usual | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent leopard=Theme as usual=Attribute |
| 3 | **surprise** |  | leopard |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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