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description: Having got some strong poison from the ju-ju man he told his wife to prepare palm oil chop for Okpa and his family. Who acts: OGHABI. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., with its dependency t
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 37

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Having got some strong poison from the ju-ju man he told his wife to prepare palm oil chop for Okpa and his family.

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**Who acts:** OGHABI · **What happens:** have, get, tell, prepare · **To what, where:** strong poison, wife, palm oil chop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (OGHABI), 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:pg70959:12:37
# text = Having got some strong poison from the ju-ju man he told his wife to prepare palm oil chop for Okpa and his family.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Okpa	Okpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past |  | some strong poison |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer poison=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | OGHABI |  | OGHABI's wife |  |  | from the ju man | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **prepare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | OGHABI *not said here* | palm oil chop and OGHABI's family |  |  |  | for Okpa | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent chop=Product for okpa=Beneficiary |

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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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