Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 19

That night Chief Awum said to Osode:--“Well! that accounts for one of the members, and I hope soon that we shall have got rid of all of them.”

Who acts: Chief, we · What happens: say, hope, get · To what, where: accounts, Osode · 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 (Chief, we), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
4	Awum	Awum	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Chief	flat
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Osode	case
7	Osode	Osode	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 accounts	punct
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 accounts	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 accounts	punct
11	Well	well	INTJ	_	14 accounts	discourse
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 Well	punct
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 accounts	det
14	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 accounts	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 members	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 members	det
19	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hope	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hope	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hope	nsubj
23	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 hope	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 got	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 got	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 got	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 got	aux
29	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 hope	ccomp
30	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 got	xcomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 rid	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 all	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Chief	that accounts for one of the members	Osode	night		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to osode=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hope in a quote	present	Chief				soon property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	get in a quote	shall · perfect	we				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 19