sudo chown: pemission denied even if I'm the owner

john@john-pcRefs:~/pCloudDrive/someFolder$ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 john john  4096 Jan 11  2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 john john  4096 Jan 11  2022 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 10439 Sep 22 18:48 EnvironmentSetup.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john  3370 Mar 25  2023 GitInitialization.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john   342 Jul 10  2023 InitDatabase.sh
john@john-pcRefs:~/pCloudDrive/someFolder$ echo $USER
john
john@john-pcRefs:~/pCloudDrive/someFolder$ sudo chmod +x GitInitialization.sh 
chmod: cannot access 'GitInitialization.sh': Permission denied