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title: When the ju-ju man had gone some little distance, Achi picked up her… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When the ju-ju man had gone some little distance, Achi picked up her baby, and ran off as fast as she could go. Who acts: ju man, Achi, child. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., with its dependency t
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 42

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When the ju-ju man had gone some little distance, Achi picked up her baby, and ran off as fast as she could go.

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**Who acts:** ju man, Achi, child · **What happens:** go, pick up, run off · **To what, where:** little distance, baby

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ju man, Achi, child), 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:pg70959:10:42
# text = When the ju-ju man had gone some little distance, Achi picked up her baby, and ran off as fast as she could go.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	Achi	Achi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the ju man | some little distance |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme |
| 2 | **pick up** | past | Achi | child's baby |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic |
| 3 | **run off** | past | Achi *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | could | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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