Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 6

Then Chief Osode sent invitations to the young men of Enfitop to come and join their society, and altogether about fifty of them became members.

Who acts: Chief, fifty · What happens: send, come, join, become · To what, where: invitations, young men, society, members

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, fifty), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
3	Osode	Osode	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Chief	flat
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Enfitop	case
11	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 men	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 join	cc
15	join	join	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 come	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 society	nmod:poss
17	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 join	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
20	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	22 fifty	advmod
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 fifty	advmod
22	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 became	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fifty	nmod
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
26	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 became	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	send	past	Chief	invitations	the young men of Enfitop	then	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme to man=Destination
2	come	to-infinitive	Chief not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	join	infinitive	Chief not said here	invitations's society			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=Patient
4	become	past	fifty of society	members			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 6