How did okonkwo feel about his return to the clan?

Okonkwo was very excited to come back to the clan for many reasons.

1). He thought the men and boys had gone soft without him there. So he needed to come back and ¨fix¨ things.

2). Obierika tells him about the white man and his people converting to Christianity.

3). His beautiful daughter, and how she will be the most liked woman in the village, and he will marry her off for a very expensive price.

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).