--- title: Both Agbor and his wife were now thoroughly frightened, and, jumping… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Both Agbor and his wife were now thoroughly frightened, and, jumping out of the water, snatched up their cloths, and ran naked along the path until they reached the shade of a large tree, where they stopped and tied their cloths on. Who acts: jumping, cloths. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jumping, cloths), 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:pg70959:25:76 # text = Both Agbor and his wife were now thoroughly frightened, and, jumping out of the water, snatched up their cloths, and ran naked along the path until they reached the shade of a large tree, where they stopped and tied their cloths on. 1 Both both CCONJ CC _ 2 cc:preconj _ _ 2 Agbor Agbor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 7 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 8 thoroughly thoroughly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 jumping jump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 csubj:pass _ _ 14 out out ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 snatched snatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 cloths cloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 along along ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 until until SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 parataxis _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 cloths cloth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 on on ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | past · passive | | Agbor and AGBOR's wife | | | now | thoroughly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **jump out** | gerund | | the water | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Trajectory | | 3 | **snatch up** | participle | jumping | women's cloths | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme | | 4 | **run** | past | | | | the path | | naked *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory | | 5 | **reach** | past | cloths *= cloth* | the shade of a large tree | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shade=Theme | | 6 | **stop** | past | cloths *= cloth* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **tie** | past | cloths *= cloth* *not said here* | cloths's cloths | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient | | 8 | **shade** | | | a large tree | | | | | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/77/) - ↑ 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/)