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title: For some time all went well with Oghabi, and he made a lot of money… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time all went well with Oghabi, and he made a lot of money by selling his dried meat, but one day he went into the forest with two of his slaves and met with misfortune. Who acts: OGHABI. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At O
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 18

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For some time all went well with Oghabi, and he made a lot of money by selling his dried meat, but one day he went into the forest with two of his slaves and met with misfortune.

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**Who acts:** OGHABI · **What happens:** go, make, sell, dry, meet · **To what, where:** lot, dried meat, forest

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (OGHABI), 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:pg70959:12:18
# text = For some time all went well with Oghabi, and he made a lot of money by selling his dried meat, but one day he went into the forest with two of his slaves and met with misfortune.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Oghabi	Oghabi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  | time | with Oghabi; well *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with oghabi=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | past | OGHABI | a lot of money |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product |
| 3 | **sell** | gerund | OGHABI *not said here* | OGHABI's dried meat |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme |
| 4 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | past | OGHABI |  |  | the forest | day | with two of OGHABI's slaves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **meet** | participle | OGHABI *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with misfortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with misfortune=Co-Agent |

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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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