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title: In the dry season, many years ago, Chief Akum Alobi of Okuni ordered… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: In the dry season, many years ago, Chief Akum Alobi of Okuni ordered all his people to go out hunting. Who acts: Akum Alobi. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 34

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In the dry season, many years ago, Chief Akum Alobi of Okuni ordered all his people to go out hunting.

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**Who acts:** Akum Alobi · **What happens:** order, go out, hunt · **To what, where:** people

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Akum Alobi), 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:pg70959:25:34
# text = In the dry season, many years ago, Chief Akum Alobi of Okuni ordered all his people to go out hunting.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Akum	Akum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Alobi	Alobi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
21	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Akum Alobi of Okuni |  | Okuni's people |  | season |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Akum Alobi of Okuni *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | Akum Alobi of Okuni *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «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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