--- title: From that day Oghabi grew to hate his friend, and when he recovered… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: From that day Oghabi grew to hate his friend, and when he recovered from the injuries he had received from the snake he began to plot as to how he should revenge himself upon Okpa and his wife. Who acts: Oghabi. 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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 (Oghabi), 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:pg70959:12:35 # text = From that day Oghabi grew to hate his friend, and when he recovered from the injuries he had received from the snake he began to plot as to how he should revenge himself upon Okpa and his wife. 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 Oghabi Oghabi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hate hate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 recovered recover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 injuries injury NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 received receive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 plot plot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 33 case _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 33 appos _ _ 35 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Okpa Okpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Oghabi | | | | day | | tree rules | | 2 | **hate** | to-infinitive | Oghabi *not said here* | OGHABI's friend | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus | | 3 | **recover** | past | OGHABI | | | the injuries | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from injury=Source | | 4 | **receive** | past · perfect | OGHABI | | | | | from the snake | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from snake=Source | | 5 | **begin** | past | OGHABI | the snake *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **plot** | to-infinitive | OGHABI *not said here* | | | | | as revenge OGHABI | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/36/) - ↑ back to [Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/12/)