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title: That night Chief Awum said to Osode:--“Well! that accounts for one o… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: That night Chief Awum said to Osode:--“Well! that accounts for one of the members, and I hope soon that we shall have got rid of all of them.” Who acts: Chief, we. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., wi
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 19

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That night Chief Awum said to Osode:--“Well! that accounts for one of the members, and I hope soon that we shall have got rid of all of them.”

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**Who acts:** Chief, we · **What happens:** say, hope, get · **To what, where:** accounts, Osode · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chief, we), 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:pg70959:7:19
# text = That night Chief Awum said to Osode:--“Well! that accounts for one of the members, and I hope soon that we shall have got rid of all of them.”
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Awum	Awum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Osode	Osode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
30	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Chief | that accounts for one of the members | Osode |  | night |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to osode=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | Chief |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | shall · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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