--- title: Okpa then went home with his wife, but the next morning he went to e… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Okpa then went home with his wife, but the next morning he went to enquire after his friend, and having stayed a short time he went home again. Who acts: Okpa. 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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 (Okpa), 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:pg70959:12:27 # text = Okpa then went home with his wife, but the next morning he went to enquire after his friend, and having stayed a short time he went home again. 1 Okpa Okpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 enquire enquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 home home ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Okpa | | | | then | with OKPA's wife; home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with wife=Beneficiary | | 2 | **go** | past | OKPA | | | | morning | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **enquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | OKPA *not said here* | | | | after OKPA's friend | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stay** | past | | | | | time | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go** | past | OKPA | a short time *not said here* | | | again | home *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/28/) - ↑ back to [Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/)