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title: Ogbaja then called the people in with hoes, and they dug up the grou… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Ogbaja then called the people in with hoes, and they dug up the ground, but could not find the eighth body. Who acts: Ogbaja, people. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 60

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Ogbaja then called the people in with hoes, and they dug up the ground, but could not find the eighth body.

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**Who acts:** Ogbaja, people · **What happens:** call in, dig up, not find · **To what, where:** people, ground, eighth body

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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 (Ogbaja, people), 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:pg70959:14:60
# text = Ogbaja then called the people in with hoes, and they dug up the ground, but could not find the eighth body.
1	Ogbaja	Ogbaja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hoes	hoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call in** *speech: assert* | past | Ogbaja |  | the people |  | then | with hoes | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 2 | **dig up** | past | people | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could | people *not said here* | the eighth body |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |

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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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