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title: XXIV.--HOW ’NYAMBI PUNISHED CHIEF OGA FOR TRYING TO COMMIT ADULTERY… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: XXIV.--HOW ’NYAMBI PUNISHED CHIEF OGA FOR TRYING TO COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HIS WIFE OBIM. Who acts: XXIV. 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 clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 63

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XXIV.--HOW ’NYAMBI PUNISHED CHIEF OGA FOR TRYING TO COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HIS WIFE OBIM.

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**Who acts:** XXIV · **What happens:** punish, try, commit · **To what, where:** CHIEF OGA, ADULTERY

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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 (XXIV), 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:pg70959:17:63
# text = XXIV.--HOW ’NYAMBI PUNISHED CHIEF OGA FOR TRYING TO COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HIS WIFE OBIM.
1	XXIV	xxiv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	’	'	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	NYAMBI	NYAMBI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	goeswith	_	_
7	PUNISHED	punish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	CHIEF	CHIEF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	OGA	OGA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	FOR	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	TRYING	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	TO	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	COMMIT	commit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	ADULTERY	adultery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	WITH	with	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	WIFE	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	OBIM	OBIM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | past | XXIV | CHIEF OGA |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oga=Patient |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | XXIV *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **commit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | XXIV *not said here* | ADULTERY |  |  |  | with XXIV's WIFE | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adultery=Theme |

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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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