--- title: When they arrived, he said, “My dear wives, I am not angry with you… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: When they arrived, he said, “My dear wives, I am not angry with you for leaving me, for love of women has caused me to lose the dearest part of my body. Who acts: wives, chief, love. 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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 (wives, chief, love), 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:pg70959:17:124 # text = When they arrived, he said, “My dear wives, I am not angry with you for leaving me, for love of women has caused me to lose the dearest part of my body. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 wives wife NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 dearest dear ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | wives *= wife* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | chief | My dear wives | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | chief | | | | | with you; angry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | gerund | chief *not said here* | chief | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 5 | **cause** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | love of women | chief | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lose** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | love of women *not said here* | the dearest part of my body | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality | | 7 | **love** *in a quote* | | | women | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/125/) - ↑ back to [Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/)