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title: Now when Abang got into Oga’s skin he was unable to walk, and was ob… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when Abang got into Oga’s skin he was unable to walk, and was obliged to sit down. Who acts: Abang, Oga. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 16

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Now when Abang got into Oga’s skin he was unable to walk, and was obliged to sit down.

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**Who acts:** Abang, Oga · **What happens:** get, be, walk, oblige, sit down · **To what, where:** skin

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abang, Oga), 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:pg70959:18:16
# text = Now when Abang got into Oga’s skin he was unable to walk, and was obliged to sit down.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Abang	Abang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Abang |  |  | Oga's skin | now |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into skin=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | Oga |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | Oga *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **oblige** | past · passive | Abang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 5 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | Abang *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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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