Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 45

The chief then put his hand into the ju-ju pot containing water, rotten eggs, and mashed-up leaves and roots, and having stirred it well up, the fighting men all came up to him one after another, and he smeared them with the liquid on the forehead and breast.

Who acts: chief, fighting men, man · What happens: put, contain, mash up, stir up, come up, smear · To what, where: hand, ju ju pot, one, Chief, roots, forehead

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, fighting men, man), 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 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	12 pot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pot	det
9	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pot	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ju	punct
11	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pot	compound
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
13	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pot	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eggs	punct
16	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eggs	amod
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pot	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 leaves	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 leaves	cc
20	mashed	mash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 leaves	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 up	punct
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 mashed	compound:prt
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 roots	cc
25	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leaves	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stirred	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stirred	cc
28	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 stirred	aux
29	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 put	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stirred	obj
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 up	advmod
32	up	up	ADP	_	29 stirred	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 men	det
35	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 men	compound
36	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 came	nsubj
37	all	all	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
39	up	up	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 came	obl
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 came	obl
43	after	after	ADP	_	44 another	case
44	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	42 one	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 smeared	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 smeared	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 smeared	nsubj
48	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 came	conj
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 smeared	obj
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 liquid	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 liquid	det
52	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 smeared	obl
53	on	on	ADP	_	55 forehead	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 forehead	det
55	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 smeared	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 breast	cc
57	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 forehead	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the chief	Chief's hand		the ju ju pot and containing water and rotten eggs	then	mashed leaves and roots parataxis	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	contain	gerund							vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	mash up	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	stir up	gerund · perfect	the chief not said here	hand					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient
5	come up	past	the fighting men	one after another	Chief			all property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
6	smear	past	man	roots = root		the forehead and breast		with the liquid	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with liquid=Theme

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 45

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 45