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title: Altogether Iya Agagim gave birth to twenty-one children, and the las… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Altogether Iya Agagim gave birth to twenty-one children, and the last boy who was born was called Amoru. Who acts: Iya. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 30

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Altogether Iya Agagim gave birth to twenty-one children, and the last boy who was born was called Amoru.

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**Who acts:** Iya · **What happens:** give, bear, call · **To what, where:** birth, one children, last boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iya), 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:pg70959:9:30
# text = Altogether Iya Agagim gave birth to twenty-one children, and the last boy who was born was called Amoru.
1	Altogether	altogether	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Iya	Iya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Agagim	Agagim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	Amoru	Amoru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Iya | birth | one children |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to child=Recipient |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | the last boy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | the last boy |  |  |  | Amoru *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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