Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 8

This caused great dissatisfaction, and at last they became so vexed that the Chief of Enfitop gave orders that for the future no more of his boys were to join the Eberambi Society.

Who acts: This, members, Chief · What happens: cause, become, vex, give, join · To what, where: great dissatisfaction, last, orders, Eberambi Society

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 (This, members, Chief), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dissatisfaction	amod
4	dissatisfaction	dissatisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 became	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 became	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 became	nsubj
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caused	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 vexed	advmod
12	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 became	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 gave	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Chief	det
15	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gave	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Enfitop	case
17	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Chief	nmod
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 vexed	advcl
19	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gave	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 future	nsubj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 future	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 future	det
23	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 orders	nmod
24	no	no	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 future	amod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 boys	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 boys	nmod:poss
28	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 more	obl
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 boys	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 join	mark
31	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 were	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Society	det
33	Eberambi	Eberambi	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Society	compound
34	Society	Society	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 join	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	past	This	great dissatisfaction			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition dissatisfaction=Patient
2	become	past	members = member		last		tree rules
3	vex	participle	members = member not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	give	past	the Chief of Enfitop	orders		for the future that	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for future=Asset
5	join	to-infinitive	the Chief of Enfitop not said here	the Eberambi Society			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=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 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 8