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title: Agbor told his wife that when night came he would go and get a suppl… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Agbor told his wife that when night came he would go and get a supply of food, but that she was not to let anyone in and not to answer anybody who called. Who acts: Agbor, night, wife. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’nde
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 88

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Agbor told his wife that when night came he would go and get a supply of food, but that she was not to let anyone in and not to answer anybody who called.

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**Who acts:** Agbor, night, wife · **What happens:** tell, come, go, get, not be, not answer · **To what, where:** wife, supply, anybody · **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 (Agbor, night, wife), 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:pg70959:25:88
# text = Agbor told his wife that when night came he would go and get a supply of food, but that she was not to let anyone in and not to answer anybody who called.
1	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
26	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Agbor |  | AGBOR's wife |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | night | AGBOR's wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | would | AGBOR |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | AGBOR *not said here* | a supply of food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supply=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **is** *not said to happen* | past | wife |  |  |  |  | anyone *obj*; let *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | anybody |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent anybody=Eventuality |
| 7 | **call** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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