--- title: So when night came and the chief went to bed, Achor said to him, “I… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: So when night came and the chief went to bed, Achor said to him, “I will not sleep with you unless you tell me how you managed to carry those five bundles.” Who acts: night, chief, Achor. 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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 (night, chief, Achor), 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:pg70959:5:84 # text = So when night came and the chief went to bed, Achor said to him, “I will not sleep with you unless you tell me how you managed to carry those five bundles.” 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Achor Achor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 34 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 bundles bundle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | night | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | past | the chief | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Achor | | Chief | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **sleep** *in a quote* | future | Achor | | | | | with Chief | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Chief | | Achor | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **manage** *in a quote* | past | Chief | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* | that five bundles | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/5/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/5/85/) - ↑ 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/)