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title: The chiefs then came and inspected the body, and afterwards met in t… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The chiefs then came and inspected the body, and afterwards met in the palaver house to try and find out who had mutilated Chief Oga. Who acts: chiefs. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., with its depen
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 134

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The chiefs then came and inspected the body, and afterwards met in the palaver house to try and find out who had mutilated Chief Oga.

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**Who acts:** chiefs · **What happens:** come, inspect, meet, try, find out, mutilate · **To what, where:** body, palaver house, Chief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs), 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:pg70959:17:134
# text = The chiefs then came and inspected the body, and afterwards met in the palaver house to try and find out who had mutilated Chief Oga.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	inspected	inspect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	palaver	palaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	mutilated	mutilate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
25	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	Oga	Oga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the chiefs |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **inspect** | past | the chiefs *not said here* | the body |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | participle | the chiefs *not said here* |  |  | the palaver house |  | afterwards *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **try** | to-infinitive | the chiefs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **find out** | infinitive | the chiefs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **mutilate** | past · perfect |  | Chief |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Patient |

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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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