--- title: The morning after Akoba had made up her mind to kill her husband, sh… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: The morning after Akoba had made up her mind to kill her husband, she said to him, “I want you to come into the forest with me to cut some palm nuts, but leave your hunting dogs behind as I do not like them.” Who acts: Akoba, Chief. 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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 (Akoba, Chief), 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:pg70959:5:70 # text = The morning after Akoba had made up her mind to kill her husband, she said to him, “I want you to come into the forest with me to cut some palm nuts, but leave your hunting dogs behind as I do not like them.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 after after SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 Akoba Akoba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 34 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 42 behind behind ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 45 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 48 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | past · perfect | Akoba | Akoba's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Akoba *not said here* | Akoba's husband | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Akoba | | Chief | | morning | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Akoba | Chief | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* | | | the forest | | with Akoba | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **cut** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* | some palm nuts | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nut=Product | | 7 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your hunting dogs | | | | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | | 8 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Akoba | DOGS *= dog* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 9 | **mind** | | Akoba | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/5/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/5/71/) - ↑ back to [Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/5/)