Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 47

The ju-ju man then cast lots, and told them that they would drive the Inkum people away, killing many men and taking many men, women and children prisoners, but he warned them that they must not commence the fight, as it was the Inkum people who were in the wrong and had killed the Enfitop people.

Who acts: ju man, lots, man, people, fight · What happens: cast, tell, drive, kill, take, warn · To what, where: lots, Inkum people, many men, people, fight, Enfitop 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 (ju man, lots, man, people), 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	5 man	det
2	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ju	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ju	punct
4	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cast	nsubj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cast	advmod
7	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cast	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cast	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 drive	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drive	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 drive	aux
16	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
18	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 people	compound
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drive	obj
20	away	away	ADV	_	16 drive	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 killing	punct
22	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 told	advcl
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 men	amod
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 killing	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taking	cc
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 killing	conj
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 taking	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 women	punct
30	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 men	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 prisoners	cc
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 prisoners	compound
33	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 men	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 warned	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 warned	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 warned	nsubj
37	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cast	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 warned	obj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 commence	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 commence	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 commence	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 commence	advmod
43	commence	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 warned	ccomp
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fight	det
45	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 commence	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 people	punct
47	as	as	ADP	_	52 people	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 people	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 people	cop
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 people	det
51	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 people	compound
52	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 commence	obl
53	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 were	nsubj
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 people	acl:relcl
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 wrong	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 wrong	det
57	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 were	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 killed	cc
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 killed	aux
60	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 were	conj
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 people	det
62	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 people	compound
63	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 killed	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past	the ju man	lots		then		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	the ju man not said here		lots = lot			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	drive not said to happen	would	lots = lot	the Inkum people			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
4	kill	gerund	the ju man not said here	many men				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
5	take	gerund	the ju man not said here		many men and women and children prisoners			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination
6	warn speech: warn	past	man		people			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	not commence	must	people	the fight				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality
8	is	past	fight				as the Inkum people	tree rules
9	kill	past · perfect	fight not said here	the Enfitop people				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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 47

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 47