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title: When all the chiefs and people had met together, Edidor was accused… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When all the chiefs and people had met together, Edidor was accused of having poisoned Ekum, her lover. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 57

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When all the chiefs and people had met together, Edidor was accused of having poisoned Ekum, her lover.

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**Who acts:** chiefs · **What happens:** meet, accuse, have, poison · **To what, where:** Edidor, poisoned Ekum

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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:pg70959:17:57
# text = When all the chiefs and people had met together, Edidor was accused of having poisoned Ekum, her lover.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	Edidor	Edidor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	accused	accuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	Ekum	Ekum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · perfect | all chiefs and people |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **accuse** | past · passive |  | Edidor |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | poisoned Ekum |  |  |  | Edidor's lover *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ekum=Patient |
| 4 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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