Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 7

The ju-ju man then made ju-ju, and finally told the Chief that the only wife he had, by whom he could get a child was a woman called Iya Agagim.

Who acts: ju man, only wife, man · What happens: make, tell, have, get, be, call · To what, where: ju, Chief, child, woman · 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 (ju man, only wife, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
2	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ju	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ju	punct
4	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	compound
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 made	advmod
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ju	ju	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ju	punct
10	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ju	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
13	finally	finally	ADV	_	14 told	advmod
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Chief	det
16	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wife	det
19	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wife	amod
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 get	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 get	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 woman	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 child	det
30	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 woman	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 woman	det
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
34	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 woman	acl
35	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 called	xcomp
36	Agagim	Agagim	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Iya	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the ju man	ju		then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ju=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	the ju man not said here		the Chief		finally property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	the only wife				man nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get	could	man	a child			by a woman	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5	is a	past		a woman				tree rules
6	call	participle		a woman not said here			Iya xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 7

The tree

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 7