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title: He will probably also just before he dies accuse the man whom he thi… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: He will probably also just before he dies accuse the man whom he thinks made the ju-ju of having witched him. Who acts: man, ju ju. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 75

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He will probably also just before he dies accuse the man whom he thinks made the ju-ju of having witched him.

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**Who acts:** man, ju ju · **What happens:** die, accuse, think, make, have, witch · **To what, where:** man, ju ju · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ju ju), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg70959:1:75
# text = He will probably also just before he dies accuse the man whom he thinks made the ju-ju of having witched him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
9	accuse	accuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	witched	witch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **accuse** | future | man | the man |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | man | the man |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | the ju ju |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ju=Product |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | the ju ju *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **witch** | participle | the ju ju *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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