Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 80

Then Chief Osode stood up, and said that he could manage that quite easily, as he was a ju-ju man, and would make a bridge for them out of his body.

Who acts: Chief · What happens: stand up, say, manage, be, make · To what, where: that, ju man, bridge, body · 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), 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 stood	advmod
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
3	Osode	Osode	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Chief	flat
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stood	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 manage	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 manage	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 manage	aux
12	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 manage	obj
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 easily	advmod
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 manage	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 man	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 man	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
21	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ju	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ju	punct
23	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	compound
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 manage	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bridge	det
30	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obl
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 body	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 body	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 body	nmod:poss
36	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	Chief			then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Chief not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	manage	could	Chief	that			easily property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	is a	past	Chief	a ju man				tree rules
5	make	would		a bridge	man's body		for people	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent bridge=Product for they=Asset

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 80

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 80