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title: The men then went out hunting again, but all day long Aictor followe… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The men then went out hunting again, but all day long Aictor followed them, calling out Agbor Adam’s name, and saying he had broken the law. Who acts: men, day, AGBOR. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 51

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The men then went out hunting again, but all day long Aictor followed them, calling out Agbor Adam’s name, and saying he had broken the law.

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**Who acts:** men, day, AGBOR · **What happens:** go out, hunt, follow, call out, say, break · **To what, where:** men, name, law · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, day, AGBOR), 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:pg70959:25:51
# text = The men then went out hunting again, but all day long Aictor followed them, calling out Agbor Adam’s name, and saying he had broken the law.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Aictor	Aictor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the men |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | the men *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | past | all day | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund | all day *not said here* | Agbor's name |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **break** | past · perfect | AGBOR | the law |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer law=Patient |
| 7 | **name** |  | Agbor |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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