--- title: When he returned home his friends encouraged him to make another att… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: When he returned home his friends encouraged him to make another attempt to get his wife back, and advised him to take a larger canoe, which would not be so likely to upset. Who acts: Ode, friends, larger canoe. 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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 (Ode, friends, larger canoe), 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:pg70959:17:13 # text = When he returned home his friends encouraged him to make another attempt to get his wife back, and advised him to take a larger canoe, which would not be so likely to upset. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 home home ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 encouraged encourage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 attempt attempt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 26 canoe canoe NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 29 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 upset upset VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | Ode | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **encourage** | past | Ode's friends | Ode | | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ode *not said here* | another attempt | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | | 4 | **get back** | to-infinitive | Ode *not said here* | Ode's wife | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | | 5 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | Ode's friends *not said here* | Ode | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ode *not said here* | a larger canoe | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is** | would | a larger canoe | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **upset** | to-infinitive | a larger canoe *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/14/) - ↑ back to [Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/17/)