Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 10

The ju-ju man told the chief not to sleep with anyone until the house was built, and that then Iya Agagim was to go into the river and wash herself all over, and having thrown away all her old clothes, she was to put on a new cloth before she joined her husband so that she would be an entirely fresh woman.

Who acts: ju man, Iya · What happens: tell, not sleep, build, be, wash, throw away · To what, where: chief, house, river, Iya, old clothes, new cloth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. 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, Iya), 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	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chief	det
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 sleep	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sleep	mark
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 anyone	case
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 sleep	obl
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 built	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 built	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 built	aux:pass
18	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sleep	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 go	mark
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 Iya	advmod
23	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 go	nsubj
24	Agagim	Agagim	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Iya	flat
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 go	cop
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	ccomp
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wash	cc
32	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
33	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 wash	obj
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 over	advmod
35	over	over	ADV	_	32 wash	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thrown	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thrown	cc
38	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 thrown	aux
39	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	parataxis
40	away	away	ADV	_	39 thrown	advmod
41	all	all	ADV	_	44 clothes	advmod
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 clothes	nmod:poss
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 clothes	amod
44	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	39 thrown	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 put	punct
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 put	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 put	cop
48	to	to	PART	_	49 put	mark
49	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 thrown	conj
50	on	on	ADP	_	53 cloth	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 cloth	det
52	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 cloth	amod
53	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 put	obl
54	before	before	SCONJ	_	56 joined	mark
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 joined	nsubj
56	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 put	advcl
57	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 husband	nmod:poss
58	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 joined	obj
59	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	67 woman	mark
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 so	fixed
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 woman	nsubj
62	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 woman	aux
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 woman	cop
64	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 woman	det
65	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	66 fresh	advmod
66	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 woman	amod
67	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 joined	advcl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the ju man		the chief			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive					with anyone	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	build	past · passive		the house				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	is not said to happen	past	Iya			the river	go property	tree rules
5	wash	infinitive	Iya not said here	Iya			over property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
6	throw away	gerund · perfect		Iya's old clothes			away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	Iya			a new cloth	put property	tree rules
8	join	past	Iya	Iya's husband				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient
9	is a	would	Iya	a fresh woman				tree rules

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, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 10

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 10