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title: Oga ’Ngigor had also been a good wrestler, singer and dancer, until… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Oga ’Ngigor had also been a good wrestler, singer and dancer, until he caught a bad sickness which covered his whole body with sores. Who acts: Oga, bad sickness. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., par
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 6

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Oga ’Ngigor had also been a good wrestler, singer and dancer, until he caught a bad sickness which covered his whole body with sores.

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**Who acts:** Oga, bad sickness · **What happens:** have, be, catch, cover · **To what, where:** good wrestler, bad sickness, whole body

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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, bad sickness), 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:pg70959:18:6
# text = Oga ’Ngigor had also been a good wrestler, singer and dancer, until he caught a bad sickness which covered his whole body with sores.
1	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ngigor	Ngigor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wrestler	wrestler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	dancer	dancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	sores	sore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Oga |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | a good wrestler and singer and dancer |  |  |  | singer *conj*; dancer *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | past | Oga | a bad sickness |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme |
| 4 | **cover** | past | a bad sickness | Oga's whole body |  |  |  | with sores | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with sore=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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