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title: Very soon Chief Oga dropped off to sleep, so Obim went to the door v… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon Chief Oga dropped off to sleep, so Obim went to the door very quietly and undid the fastening. Who acts: Chief, Obim. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 104

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Very soon Chief Oga dropped off to sleep, so Obim went to the door very quietly and undid the fastening.

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**Who acts:** Chief, Obim · **What happens:** drop off, sleep, go, undo · **To what, where:** door, fastening

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, Obim), 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:pg70959:17:104
# text = Very soon Chief Oga dropped off to sleep, so Obim went to the door very quietly and undid the fastening.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	Obim	Obim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	undid	undo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fastening	fastening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop off** | past | Chief |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | Obim |  |  | the door |  | quietly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **undo** | past | Obim *not said here* | the fastening |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fastening=Patient |

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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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