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title: Oga did the same at this town, and then went on to Okanga, and after… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Oga did the same at this town, and then went on to Okanga, and after a few days walked along the river bank to Enfitop. Who acts: 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 tre
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 32

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Oga did the same at this town, and then went on to Okanga, and after a few days walked along the river bank to Enfitop.

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**Who acts:** Oga · **What happens:** do, go on, walk · **To what, where:** same, town, Okanga, Enfitop

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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 (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:pg70959:18:32
# text = Oga did the same at this town, and then went on to Okanga, and after a few days walked along the river bank to Enfitop.
1	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Okanga	Okanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
21	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	along	along	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Oga | the same |  | this town |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
| 2 | **go on** | past |  |  | Okanga |  | then |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | past |  |  | Enfitop |  | day | along the river bank | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to enfitop=Result |

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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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