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title: When Oga awoke he saw ’Nyambi standing over him with his knife point… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When Oga awoke he saw ’Nyambi standing over him with his knife pointing at his breast. ’ Who acts: Oga, Nyambi. 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 pragmatics of every c
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 106

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When Oga awoke he saw ’Nyambi standing over him with his knife pointing at his breast. ’

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**Who acts:** Oga, Nyambi · **What happens:** awake, see, stand, point · **To what, where:** breast

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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 (Oga, Nyambi), 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:pg70959:17:106
# text = When Oga awoke he saw ’Nyambi standing over him with his knife pointing at his breast. ’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | Oga |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | OGA |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | Nyambi |  |  |  |  | over OGA; with NYAMBI's knife | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location |
| 4 | **point** | gerund | Nyambi *not said here* |  |  | NYAMBI's breast |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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