Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 80

The ju-ju man, after casting lots, told the chief that it would be quite easy to make Obim leave ’Nyambi and go to him, and that all the chief would have to do would be to give Obim some tombo to drink, which he would prepare with a strong medicine in it.

Who acts: ju man, Obim, chief · What happens: cast, tell, be, make, leave, go · To what, where: lots, chief, Obim, ’, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ju man, Obim, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
2	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ju	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ju	punct
4	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 casting	mark
8	casting	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 man	acl
9	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 casting	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chief	det
13	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 easy	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 easy	expl
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 easy	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 easy	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 easy	advmod
19	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 easy	csubj
22	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
23	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	xcomp
24	’	'	X	_	23 leave	obj
25	Nyambi	Nyambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ’	goeswith
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 leave	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 have	cc
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 have	mark
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 chief	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 chief	det
35	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 have	aux
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 have	xcomp
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 give	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 give	cop
42	to	to	PART	_	43 give	mark
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 have	conj
44	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 give	obj
45	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	46 tombo	det
46	tombo	tombo	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 drink	mark
48	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 give	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 prepare	punct
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 prepare	nsubj
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 prepare	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 prepare	aux
53	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 drink	conj
54	with	with	ADP	_	57 medicine	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 medicine	det
56	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 medicine	amod
57	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 prepare	obl
58	in	in	ADP	_	59 it	case
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 prepare	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cast	gerund	the ju man not said here	lots				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	the ju man		the chief			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient
3	is	would					easy property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive		Obim				tree rules
5	leave	infinitive	Obim not said here	’ Nyambi				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent '=Theme
6	go	infinitive	Obim not said here		chief			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
7	have	would	all chief					tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive	all chief not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	would	all chief not said here				Obim obj; some tombo obj; give property	tree rules
10	drink	to-infinitive	all chief not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	prepare	would				way	with a strong medicine; which nsubj; chief nsubj	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with medicine=Instrument

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.

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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 80