Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 133

The water ju-ju also told the porcupine that he must take Ogor to his mother when it was dark, and hide him in the house until the palaver was heard, so that no one should know that Ogor was alive.

Who acts: water, objection, one, Ogor · What happens: tell, take, be, hide, hear, know · To what, where: porcupine, Ogor, mother, water, house, palaver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, objection, one, Ogor), 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	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
3	ju	ju	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 water	appos
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ju	punct
5	ju	ju	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ju	flat
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 porcupine	det
9	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 take	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
14	Ogor	Ogor	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 dark	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dark	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dark	cop
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 take	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hide	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hide	cc
24	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hide	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hide	obl
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	33 heard	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 palaver	det
31	palaver	palaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 heard	aux:pass
33	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 hide	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 know	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 know	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 one	det
38	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 know	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 know	aux
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 heard	conj
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 alive	mark
42	Ogor	Ogor	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 alive	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 alive	cop
44	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 know	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the water		the porcupine			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent porcupine=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	must	water	Ogor	water's mother			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ogor=Theme to mother=Destination
3	is	past	objection				dark property	tree rules
4	hide	infinitive	the water not said here	water		the house		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in house=Location
5	hear	past · passive		the palaver				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
6	know	should	no one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	Ogor				alive property	tree rules

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, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 133

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 133