--- title: Agbor at once thought that her husband must have some evil design up… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics description: Agbor at once thought that her husband must have some evil design upon her son; so that night she went to the place where her husband was going to make his farm and saw the Queen of the White Ants. Who acts: Agbor, husband, chief. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agbor, husband, chief), 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:pg70959:8:17 # text = Agbor at once thought that her husband must have some evil design upon her son; so that night she went to the place where her husband was going to make his farm and saw the Queen of the White Ants. 1 Agbor Agbor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 obl _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 10 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 11 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 design design NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 upon upon ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 so so SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 Ants Ant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Agbor | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **have** | must | chief's husband | some evil design | | | | upon chief's son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient | | 3 | **go** | past | chief | | | the place | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | chief's husband | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | chief's husband *not said here* | husband's farm | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset farm=Product | | 6 | **see** | past | chief *not said here* | the Queen of the White Ants | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/8/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/8/18/) - ↑ back to [Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/8/)