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title: V.--CONCERNING THE HUMAN SACRIFICES WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE DEATH OF… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: V.--CONCERNING THE HUMAN SACRIFICES WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE DEATH OF CHIEF INDOMA. Who acts: V., HUMAN SACRIFICES, CHIEF. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., with its dependency tree and th
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 26

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V.--CONCERNING THE HUMAN SACRIFICES WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE DEATH OF CHIEF INDOMA.

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**Who acts:** V., HUMAN SACRIFICES, CHIEF · **What happens:** concern, take, die · **To what, where:** HUMAN SACRIFICES, PLACE, DEATH

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (V., HUMAN SACRIFICES, CHIEF), 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:pg70959:5:26
# text = V.--CONCERNING THE HUMAN SACRIFICES WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE DEATH OF CHIEF INDOMA.
1	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	CONCERNING	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	HUMAN	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	SACRIFICES	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	WHICH	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	TOOK	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	PLACE	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	DEATH	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	CHIEF	CHIEF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	INDOMA	INDOMA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **concern** | gerund | V. | the HUMAN SACRIFICES |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sacrifice=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take** | past | the HUMAN SACRIFICES | PLACE |  | the DEATH of CHIEF |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on death=Destination |
| 3 | **die** |  | CHIEF |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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