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title: Oga then tried again to persuade Obim to leave her husband and go to… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Oga then tried again to persuade Obim to leave her husband and go to him, but Obim refused as before. Who acts: Oga, Obim. 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
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 84

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Oga then tried again to persuade Obim to leave her husband and go to him, but Obim refused as before.

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**Who acts:** Oga, Obim · **What happens:** try, persuade, leave, go, refuse · **To what, where:** Obim, husband, chief

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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, Obim), 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:pg70959:17:84
# text = Oga then tried again to persuade Obim to leave her husband and go to him, but Obim refused as before.
1	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	Obim	Obim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Obim	Obim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Oga |  |  |  | then; again |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **persuade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Oga *not said here* | Obim |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent obim=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Obim *not said here* | OBIM's husband |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | Obim *not said here* |  | chief |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **refuse** | past | Obim |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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