Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 63

To this they all agreed, and they went on in their usual way killing and eating a man or a woman every night: but Amoru never eat his share.

Who acts: people, usual way, Amoru · What happens: agree, go on, kill, eat, not eat, share · To what, where: usual way, man, share

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 (people, usual way, 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 they	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 they	nsubj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 they	det
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 all	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 way	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
13	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
15	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 way	acl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eating	cc
17	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 killing	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eating	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 woman	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 woman	det
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	conj
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 night	det
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eating	obl:unmarked
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 eat	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 eat	cc
27	Amoru	Amoru	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 eat	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 eat	advmod
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	parataxis
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 eat	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	participle					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go on	past	people		people's usual way		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
3	kill	gerund	people's usual way not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	eat	gerund	people's usual way not said here	a man or a woman		night	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
5	not eat	infinitive	Amoru	Amoru's share			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient
6	share		Amoru				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 63

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 63