Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 45

During the night, Chief Elullo turned himself into a witch-bird (the owl) and went to ’Ndabu’s house, where he called the boy whom he had witched.

Who acts: Chief · What happens: turn, go, ', call, witch · To what, where: chief, house, boy · 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 (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	During	during	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
6	Elullo	Elullo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Chief	flat
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 turned	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	13 bird	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bird	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bird	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 witch	punct
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 owl	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 owl	det
16	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bird	appos
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	16 owl	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 ’	case
21	’	'	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	xcomp
22	Ndabu	Ndabu	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 house	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Ndabu	case
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ’	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 called	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 called	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 called	nsubj
28	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 house	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 boy	det
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	obj
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 witched	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 witched	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 witched	aux
34	witched	witch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 boy	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Chief	chief		night	into a witch bird result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into bird=Result
2	go	past	Chief not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	'	infinitive	Chief not said here	Ndabu's house				tree rules
4	call	past	chief		the boy			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
5	witch	past · perfect	chief	the boy				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 45

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 45