Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 52

Chief Elullo told the boy that they were going to eat the dead man as they had eaten the man the previous night, and that he should have his share as before.

Who acts: Chief, houses, man · What happens: tell, go, eat, have, share · To what, where: boy, dead man, man, share · 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, houses, man), 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	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
2	Elullo	Elullo	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Chief	flat
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 eaten	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eaten	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eaten	aux
18	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 eat	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eaten	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
22	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 night	amod
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eaten	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 share	nmod:poss
31	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 before	case
33	before	before	ADV	_	29 have	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Chief		the boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	houses = house				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	to-infinitive	houses = house not said here	the dead man			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	eat	past · perfect	houses = house	the man		night	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
5	have	should	man	man's share			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient
6	share		man				nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 52