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title: Both the women then went out to look for the boy, but could not find… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Both the women then went out to look for the boy, but could not find him or any of his companions, as they had all returned to their parents’ houses. Who acts: women. 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 124

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Both the women then went out to look for the boy, but could not find him or any of his companions, as they had all returned to their parents’ houses.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** go out, look, not find, return · **To what, where:** Ogor

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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 (women), 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:pg70959:7:124
# text = Both the women then went out to look for the boy, but could not find him or any of his companions, as they had all returned to their parents’ houses.
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc:preconj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the women |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | the women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the boy | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for boy=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **find** | could | the women *not said here* | Ogor |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **return** | past · perfect | women *= woman* |  |  |  |  | to women's parents's houses *result*; all *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |

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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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