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title: Achi was, however, determined to go and bothered her husband so much… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Achi was, however, determined to go and bothered her husband so much that at last he consented and they started off together. Who acts: Achi, woman. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., with its depend
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 9

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Achi was, however, determined to go and bothered her husband so much that at last he consented and they started off together.

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**Who acts:** Achi, woman · **What happens:** be, go, bother, consent, start off · **To what, where:** husband, last

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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 (Achi, woman), 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:pg70959:10:9
# text = Achi was, however, determined to go and bothered her husband so much that at last he consented and they started off together.
1	Achi	Achi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bothered	bother	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Achi |  |  |  |  | determined, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Achi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bother** | past | Achi *not said here* | fish's husband |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer |
| 4 | **consent** | past | Achi |  |  | last |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **start off** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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