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title: Inkang Ezen told her husband that in three days’ time she would set… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Inkang Ezen told her husband that in three days’ time she would set out to find Ibanang, and that if she did not find her she would never return. Who acts: Inkang, mother. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., with i
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 108

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Inkang Ezen told her husband that in three days’ time she would set out to find Ibanang, and that if she did not find her she would never return.

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**Who acts:** Inkang, mother · **What happens:** tell, set out, find, not find, not return · **To what, where:** husband, Ibanang, mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Inkang, mother), 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:pg70959:14:108
# text = Inkang Ezen told her husband that in three days’ time she would set out to find Ibanang, and that if she did not find her she would never return.
1	Inkang	Inkang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ezen	Ezen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	Ibanang	Ibanang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Inkang |  | Inkang's husband |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **set out** | would | Inkang | Inkang's husband |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Inkang *not said here* | Ibanang |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ibanang=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | Inkang | mother |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **return** | would | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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