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title: Her father then warned her that she would never bear a child if she… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Her father then warned her that she would never bear a child if she went on as she was doing, always changing and sleeping with so many different men. Who acts: father, Omegha. 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 95

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Her father then warned her that she would never bear a child if she went on as she was doing, always changing and sleeping with so many different men.

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**Who acts:** father, Omegha · **What happens:** warn, not bear, go on, do, change, sleep · **To what, where:** Omegha, child · **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 (father, Omegha), 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:pg70959:7:95
# text = Her father then warned her that she would never bear a child if she went on as she was doing, always changing and sleeping with so many different men.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | Omegha's father |  | Omegha |  | then |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **bear** | would | Omegha | a child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **go on** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Omegha |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past · progressive | Omegha |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **change** | gerund | Omegha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sleep** | gerund | Omegha *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with many different men | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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