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title: That night, the boys belonging to Ogor’s company, of whom there were… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: That night, the boys belonging to Ogor’s company, of whom there were eight, met together and decided that Ogor had been very rude to them. Who acts: boys, eight, Ogor. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 113

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That night, the boys belonging to Ogor’s company, of whom there were eight, met together and decided that Ogor had been very rude to them.

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**Who acts:** boys, eight, Ogor · **What happens:** belong, be, meet, decide · **To what, where:** boys, night · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boys, eight, Ogor), 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:pg70959:7:113
# text = That night, the boys belonging to Ogor’s company, of whom there were eight, met together and decided that Ogor had been very rude to them.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	Ogor	Ogor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
16	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	Ogor	Ogor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | gerund | the boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Ogor's company; of the boys | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | eight |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | past |  |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **decide** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past · perfect | Ogor |  | boys *= boy* |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |

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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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