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title: The people then went to the house to look at Awo and her children, a… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The people then went to the house to look at Awo and her children, and the father and brothers of Awo at once armed themselves and set off into the bush to find Agbor. Who acts: people, father. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor th
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 24

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The people then went to the house to look at Awo and her children, and the father and brothers of Awo at once armed themselves and set off into the bush to find Agbor.

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**Who acts:** people, father · **What happens:** go, look, arm, set off, find · **To what, where:** house, people, bush, Agbor

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, father), 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:pg70959:11:24
# text = The people then went to the house to look at Awo and her children, and the father and brothers of Awo at once armed themselves and set off into the bush to find Agbor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Awo	Awo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Awo	Awo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	_
25	armed	arm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
35	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the people |  |  | the house | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Awo and Awo's children | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at awo=Theme |
| 3 | **arm** | past | the father and brothers of Awo | people |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
| 4 | **set off** | infinitive | the father and brothers of Awo *not said here* |  |  | the bush |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | the father and brothers of Awo *not said here* | Agbor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agbor=Topic |

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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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