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title: Chief Kaku then guessed that they must have taken the farm road, and… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Chief Kaku then guessed that they must have taken the farm road, and had probably arrived safely at Okuni. Who acts: Chief, men. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, with its dependency tr
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 1, sentence 65

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Chief Kaku then guessed that they must have taken the farm road, and had probably arrived safely at Okuni.

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**Who acts:** Chief, men · **What happens:** guess, take, arrive · **To what, where:** farm road, Okuni · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., 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 (Chief, men), 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:pg70959:24:65
# text = Chief Kaku then guessed that they must have taken the farm road, and had probably arrived safely at Okuni.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Kaku	Kaku	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	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 | **guess** | past | Chief |  |  |  | then |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | must · perfect | men *= man* | the farm road |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | past · perfect | Chief *not said here* |  |  | Okuni |  | probably, safely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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