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title: This caused the Chief to dislike her more than he had done before, a… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: This caused the Chief to dislike her more than he had done before, and he told some of his other wives that he believed that Agbor was going about with other men. Who acts: This, Chief, boy, Agbor. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Trie
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 9

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This caused the Chief to dislike her more than he had done before, and he told some of his other wives that he believed that Agbor was going about with other men.

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**Who acts:** This, Chief, boy, Agbor · **What happens:** cause, dislike, do, tell, believe, go about · **To what, where:** Chief, some · **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 (This, Chief, boy, Agbor), 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:pg70959:8:9
# text = This caused the Chief to dislike her more than he had done before, and he told some of his other wives that he believed that Agbor was going about with other men.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	dislike	dislike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **cause** | past | This | the Chief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dislike** | to-infinitive | the Chief *not said here* | chief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | boy |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | boy | some of boy's other wives |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Recipient |
| 5 | **believe** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **go about** | past · progressive | Agbor |  |  |  |  | with other men; about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with man=Instrument |

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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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