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title: The Chiefs Awum and Osode then went into the bush, and searched abou… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chiefs Awum and Osode then went into the bush, and searched about until they found an open space, which could be cleared without much trouble. Who acts: Chiefs Awum, Awum. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 10

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The Chiefs Awum and Osode then went into the bush, and searched about until they found an open space, which could be cleared without much trouble.

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**Who acts:** Chiefs Awum, Awum · **What happens:** go, search, find, clear · **To what, where:** bush, open space

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chiefs Awum, Awum), 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:pg70959:7:10
# text = The Chiefs Awum and Osode then went into the bush, and searched about until they found an open space, which could be cleared without much trouble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Chiefs	Chief	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	Awum	Awum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Osode	Osode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	cleared	clear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Chiefs Awum and Osode |  |  | the bush | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **search** | past | the Chiefs Awum and Osode *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | Awum | a open space |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Topic |
| 4 | **clear** | could · passive |  | a open space |  |  |  | without much trouble | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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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