--- title: Not long afterwards, ’Nyambi opened the door and found Chief Oga asl… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Not long afterwards, ’Nyambi opened the door and found Chief Oga asleep in his wife’s bed; so he fastened the door securely, and, having got his knife ready, made the fire blaze and woke the chief up. Who acts: Nyambi, chief, having. 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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 (Nyambi, chief, having), 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:pg70959:17:105 # text = Not long afterwards, ’Nyambi opened the door and found Chief Oga asleep in his wife’s bed; so he fastened the door securely, and, having got his knife ready, made the fire blaze and woke the chief up. 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 3 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 ’ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Nyambi Nyambi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 Chief Chief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 Oga Oga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 fastened fasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 securely securely ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 csubj _ _ 31 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 blaze blaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 woke wake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 44 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | Nyambi | the door | | | | long *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 2 | **find** | past | Nyambi *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fasten** | past | chief | the door | | | | securely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 4 | **have** | gerund | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | past | having | chief's knife | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus | | 6 | **make** | past | Nyambi *not said here* | the fire blaze | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blaze=Product | | 7 | **wake up** | past | Nyambi *not said here* | the chief | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chief=Patient | 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 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/104/) - next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/106/) - ↑ back to [Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/)