--- title: Osegi then went out and gave the necessary orders, and told her slav… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Osegi then went out and gave the necessary orders, and told her slaves to be most particular to call the grasshopper’s name the next time there was food so that he should be able to eat. Who acts: Osegi, grasshopper. 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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 (Osegi, grasshopper), 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:pg70959:6:30 # text = Osegi then went out and gave the necessary orders, and told her slaves to be most particular to call the grasshopper’s name the next time there was food so that he should be able to eat. 1 Osegi Osegi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 iobj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 17 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 18 advmod _ _ 18 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 csubj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 grasshopper grasshopper NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | Osegi | | | | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | past | Osegi *not said here* | the necessary orders | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Osegi *not said here* | | Osegi's slaves | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient | | 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | particular *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **call** | to-infinitive | | the grasshopper's name | | | time | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | | 6 | **is** | should | grasshopper | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | grasshopper *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **name** | | the grasshopper | | | | | | nom name «communication 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/31/) - ↑ back to [Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/6/)