--- title: Them people come and thief them gin for night time but he no look th… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Them people come and thief them gin for night time but he no look them man cause he live for sleep, so I make them boy pay for them gin and now I want catch them thief man.” Who acts: ’, boy, man, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (’, boy, man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg70959:1:68 # text = Them people come and thief them gin for night time but he no look them man cause he live for sleep, so I make them boy pay for them gin and now I want catch them thief man.” 1 Them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 thief thief VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 gin gin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 conj _ _ 14 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 compound _ _ 31 gin gin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 thief thief PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | ’ *= '* | | | | | people *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **thief** | present | ’ *= '* *not said here* | ’ *= '* | | | time | gin *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | infinitive | boy | ’ *= '* | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Attribute | | 4 | **cause** | present | man | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | infinitive | boy | | | | | for sleep | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** | present | I | ’ *= '* | | | | boy *obj* | tree rules | | 7 | **pay** | infinitive | ’ *= '* *not said here* | | | | | for them gin | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gin=Theme | | 8 | **want** | present | I | | | | now | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 9 | **catch** *not said to happen* | infinitive | I *not said here* | ’ *= '* | | | | thief's man *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary man=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/)