Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 55

When the food was sufficiently cooked it was divided amongst the witches who sat down and eat it, but Amoru only eat the yam and took the meat home and hid it in the same place.

Who acts: witches, Amoru · What happens: cook, divide, sit down, eat, take, hide · To what, where: food, yam, meat, same place

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 (witches, Amoru), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cooked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 food	det
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cooked	aux:pass
5	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	6 cooked	advmod
6	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 divided	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 divided	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 divided	aux:pass
9	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	12 witches	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 witches	det
12	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 divided	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 witches	acl:relcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
17	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 eat	cc
21	Amoru	Amoru	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 eat	nsubj
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 eat	advmod
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 divided	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 yam	det
25	yam	yam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 meat	det
29	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
30	home	home	ADV	_	27 took	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hid	cc
32	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 took	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 hid	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 place	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 place	det
36	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 place	amod
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hid	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cook	past · passive		the food		sufficiently property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	divide	past · passive		food		amongst the witches	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	sit down	past	the witches				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	eat	present	the witches not said here	food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	eat	present	Amoru	the yam			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yam=Patient
6	take	past	Amoru not said here	the meat		home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
7	hide	past	Amoru not said here	food	the same place		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in place=Location

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 55

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 55