--- title: Omegha waited for a week, and then did as she had been advised to do… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Omegha waited for a week, and then did as she had been advised to do by her father, and, after a month had elapsed, she found that she had conceived. Who acts: Omegha. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/7/97/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/) / [Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inku…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/7/) / 97 # Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 97 Omegha waited for a week, and then did as she had been advised to do by her father, and, after a month had elapsed, she found that she had conceived. **Who acts:** Omegha · **What happens:** wait, do, advise, elapse, find, conceive · **To what, where:** Omegha, month · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Omegha), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg70959:7:97 # text = Omegha waited for a week, and then did as she had been advised to do by her father, and, after a month had elapsed, she found that she had conceived. 1 Omegha Omegha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 advised advise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 ccomp _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 after after SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 elapsed elapse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 conceived conceive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | Omegha | | | | week | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | Omegha *not said here* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 3 | **advise** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | | Omegha | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Omegha *not said here* | | | | | by Omegha's father | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **elapse** | past · perfect · passive | | a month | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **find** | past | Omegha | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **conceive** | past · perfect · passive | | Omegha | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/7/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/7/98/) - ↑ back to [Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/7/)