Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 21

He then called Chief Erim’s name, and having put the two ju-jus into the tombo, told the ju-ju to kill Chief Erim and not to harm anyone else.

Who acts: Chief · What happens: call, put, tell, kill, not harm, name · To what, where: name, ju jus, tombo, ju ju, Chief, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 name	nmod:poss
5	Erim	Erim	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Chief	flat
6	’s	's	PART	_	4 Chief	case
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
10	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 put	aux
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jus	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 ju	nummod
14	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 jus	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ju	punct
16	jus	jus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 tombo	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tombo	det
19	tombo	tombo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ju	det
23	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ju	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ju	punct
25	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 kill	mark
27	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	ccomp
28	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 kill	obj
29	Erim	Erim	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Chief	flat
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 harm	cc
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 harm	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 harm	mark
33	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	conj
34	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 harm	obj
35	else	else	ADV	_	34 anyone	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Chief	Chief's name		then	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	put	gerund	Chief not said here	the ju jus	the tombo		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jus=Goal
3	tell speech: assert	past		the ju ju			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ju=Recipient clause=Topic
4	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive		Chief			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme
5	not harm	to-infinitive		anyone			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer
6	name		Chief				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 21

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Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 21