Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 137

The chiefs at once sent the drummer round the town to tell all the people to attend at the palaver house the next day, that no one was to go to their farms, and that all the small boys of the town were to attend.

Who acts: chiefs, one, small boys · What happens: send, tell, attend, be · To what, where: drummer, people · 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 (chiefs, one, small boys), 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 chiefs	det
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 sent	obl
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drummer	det
7	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sent	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 people	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tell	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 attend	mark
17	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 house	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 house	det
20	palaver	palaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 house	compound
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attend	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 day	det
23	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 day	amod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 attend	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 go	cop
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 attend	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 farms	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 farms	nmod:poss
34	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 go	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 attend	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 attend	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 attend	mark
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 boys	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boys	det
40	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 boys	amod
41	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 attend	nsubj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 town	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 town	det
44	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 boys	nmod
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 attend	aux
46	to	to	PART	_	47 attend	mark
47	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the chiefs	the drummer			round the town	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drummer=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the chiefs not said here		all people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
3	attend not said to happen	to-infinitive				day	at the palaver house	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme
4	is	past	no one				to towns's farms; go property	tree rules
5	attend	past	all small boys of the town					vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 137

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 137