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title: His wives, who had by that time all married other men, got permissio… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: His wives, who had by that time all married other men, got permission from their husbands to go and mourn for Chief Oga. Who acts: wives. 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
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 130

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His wives, who had by that time all married other men, got permission from their husbands to go and mourn for Chief Oga.

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**Who acts:** wives · **What happens:** have, marry, get, go, mourn · **To what, where:** other men, permission

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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 (wives), 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:pg70959:17:130
# text = His wives, who had by that time all married other men, got permission from their husbands to go and mourn for Chief Oga.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  | time | who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **marry** | past | chief's wives | other men |  |  |  | all *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | past | chief's wives *not said here* | permission |  |  |  | from wives's husbands | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent permission=Theme from husband=Source |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | chief's wives *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mourn** | infinitive | chief's wives *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Chief | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for chief=Attribute |

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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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