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title: So, after that, the Enfitop boys did not go to the play again, and t… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: So, after that, the Enfitop boys did not go to the play again, and the Inkum people lost their chance of getting any more of them for food. Who acts: Enfitop boys, Inkum people, chance, people. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 25

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So, after that, the Enfitop boys did not go to the play again, and the Inkum people lost their chance of getting any more of them for food.

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**Who acts:** Enfitop boys, Inkum people, chance, people · **What happens:** not go, lose, get, chance · **To what, where:** play, chance, more

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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 (Enfitop boys, Inkum people, chance, people), 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:pg70959:7:25
# text = So, after that, the Enfitop boys did not go to the play again, and the Inkum people lost their chance of getting any more of them for food.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	any	any	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · do-support | the Enfitop boys |  |  | the play | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to play=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lose** | past | the Inkum people | people's chance |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | people's chance *not said here* | more of people |  |  |  | for food | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent more=Theme for food=Source |
| 4 | **chance** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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