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title: The ju-ju man, however, had heard the child cry, and came to Achi at… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The ju-ju man, however, had heard the child cry, and came to Achi at once and assisted her by boiling water for her to wash with. Who acts: ju man, child. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., with its 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 24

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The ju-ju man, however, had heard the child cry, and came to Achi at once and assisted her by boiling water for her to wash with.

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**Who acts:** ju man, child · **What happens:** hear, cry, come, assist, boil, wash · **To what, where:** child, Achi

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise.. 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, child), 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:pg70959:10:24
# text = The ju-ju man, however, had heard the child cry, and came to Achi at once and assisted her by boiling water for her to wash with.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Achi	Achi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	assisted	assist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | the ju man | the child |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | Achi |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to achi=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **assist** | past |  | child |  |  |  | for fish; boiling water *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **wash** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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