--- title: He thought he must have made a mistake, so he counted them again out… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: He thought he must have made a mistake, so he counted them again out loud, one, two, three, up to seven, and the cripple called from his pot after him the numbers up to seven. Who acts: Ogbaja, cripple. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mis --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/14/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/) / [Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/14/) / 58 # Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 58 He thought he must have made a mistake, so he counted them again out loud, one, two, three, up to seven, and the cripple called from his pot after him the numbers up to seven. **Who acts:** Ogbaja, cripple · **What happens:** think, make, count, call · **To what, where:** mistake, witches, numbers, pot · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ogbaja, cripple), 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:pg70959:14:58 # text = He thought he must have made a mistake, so he counted them again out loud, one, two, three, up to seven, and the cripple called from his pot after him the numbers up to seven. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 counted count VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 loud loud ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 up up ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 cripple cripple NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 31 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 after after ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 xcomp _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 41 case _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Ogbaja | | | | | the cripple *ccomp* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **make** | must · perfect | Ogbaja | a mistake | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | | 3 | **count** | past | Ogbaja | witches *= witch* | | | again | one *conj*; loud *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | the cripple *not said here* | the numbers up seven | | Ogbaja's pot after Ogbaja | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from pot=Source | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/14/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/14/59/) - ↑ back to [Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/14/)