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title: She advised ’Nyambi to pretend to go down river to sell some camwood… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: She advised ’Nyambi to pretend to go down river to sell some camwood and she would then allow the chief to come to her at night when ’Nyambi should come in and surprise them together. Who acts: OBIM, chief, Nyambi. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 92

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She advised ’Nyambi to pretend to go down river to sell some camwood and she would then allow the chief to come to her at night when ’Nyambi should come in and surprise them together.

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**Who acts:** OBIM, chief, Nyambi · **What happens:** advise, pretend, go down, sell, allow, come · **To what, where:** Nyambi, river, camwood, chief, OBIM, presents

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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 (OBIM, chief, Nyambi), 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:pg70959:17:92
# text = She advised ’Nyambi to pretend to go down river to sell some camwood and she would then allow the chief to come to her at night when ’Nyambi should come in and surprise them together.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	camwood	camwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
29	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	surprise	surprise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	together	together	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | OBIM |  | Nyambi |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nyambi=Recipient |
| 2 | **pretend** | to-infinitive | OBIM *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go down** | to-infinitive | OBIM *not said here* | river |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient river=Extent |
| 4 | **sell** | to-infinitive | OBIM *not said here* | some camwood |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camwood=Theme |
| 5 | **allow** | would | OBIM | the chief |  |  | then |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer chief=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the chief *not said here* |  | OBIM |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **come in** | should | Nyambi |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **surprise** | present | Nyambi *not said here* | presents *= present* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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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