Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 62

Amoru then begged the witches to have another round and that when it came to his turn again he would give either his father or mother up to be eaten.

Who acts: Amoru, that · What happens: beg, have, come, give up, eat · To what, where: witches, round, turn, father · 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 (Amoru, that), 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	Amoru	Amoru	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 begged	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 begged	advmod
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witches	det
5	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	ccomp
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 round	det
9	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 came	nsubj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 give	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 turn	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 turn	nmod:poss
17	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 give	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 give	aux
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begged	parataxis
22	either	either	CCONJ	_	24 father	cc:preconj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 mother	cc
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 father	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	21 give	compound:prt
28	to	to	PART	_	30 eaten	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 eaten	aux:pass
30	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 give	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Amoru		the witches		then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive		another round					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Patient
3	come	past	that			Amoru's turn	again	round nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial_Location
4	give up	would	Amoru	Amoru's father or mother					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Source
5	eat	to-infinitive · passive	Amoru not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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 62

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 62