--- title: When Agbor heard the now familiar voice of the bird, he looked round… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: When Agbor heard the now familiar voice of the bird, he looked round everywhere, but, as he could not see Aictor, he was frightened, and told his wife to pick up her load at once. Who acts: Agbor. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s D --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/) / [Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/) / 69 # Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 69 When Agbor heard the now familiar voice of the bird, he looked round everywhere, but, as he could not see Aictor, he was frightened, and told his wife to pick up her load at once. **Who acts:** Agbor · **What happens:** hear, look round, not see, frighten, tell, pick up · **To what, where:** familiar voice, Aictor, AGBOR, wife, load · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Agbor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg70959:25:69 # text = When Agbor heard the now familiar voice of the bird, he looked round everywhere, but, as he could not see Aictor, he was frightened, and told his wife to pick up her load at once. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Agbor Agbor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 6 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 round round ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 24 Aictor Aictor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 iobj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 load load NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Agbor | the familiar voice of the bird | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **look round** | past | AGBOR | | | | | everywhere *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **see** | could | AGBOR | Aictor | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aictor=Stimulus | | 4 | **frighten** | past · passive | | AGBOR | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | AGBOR *not said here* | | AGBOR's wife | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **pick up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | AGBOR *not said here* | wife's load | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/70/) - ↑ back to [Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/)