--- title: Ogbaja then counted the bodies again, and the people listened carefu… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Ogbaja then counted the bodies again, and the people listened carefully; the cripple answered as before, and they guessed from the direction the voice came from that the last of the witch-men must be in the water-pot, so they looked in and found the cripple. 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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 (Ogbaja, people, cripple, voice), 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:pg70959:14:61 # text = Ogbaja then counted the bodies again, and the people listened carefully; the cripple answered as before, and they guessed from the direction the voice came from that the last of the witch-men must be in the water-pot, so they looked in and found the cripple. 1 Ogbaja Ogbaja PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 counted count 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 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 listened listen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cripple cripple NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 before before ADV RB _ 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 cop _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 so so ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 49 in in ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 cripple cripple NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | past | Ogbaja | the bodies | | | then; again | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | | 2 | **listen** | past | the people | | | | | carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the cripple | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **guess** | past | people | | | the direction | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | past | the voice | | | the last of the witch men | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from last=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **is** | must | | | | the water pot | | | tree rules | | 7 | **look in** | past | people | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **find** | past | people *not said here* | the cripple | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cripple=Topic | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/14/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/14/62/) - ↑ back to [Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/14/)