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title: The Enfitop people eventually agreed to do this, and Chief Awum buil… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The Enfitop people eventually agreed to do this, and Chief Awum built his town, which he called Aliese, and appointed a man called Osode to be his second chief. Who acts: Enfitop people, Chief. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 2

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The Enfitop people eventually agreed to do this, and Chief Awum built his town, which he called Aliese, and appointed a man called Osode to be his second chief.

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**Who acts:** Enfitop people, Chief · **What happens:** agree, do, build, call, appoint, be · **To what, where:** this, town, man, second chief · **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 (Enfitop people, 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:pg70959:7:2
# text = The Enfitop people eventually agreed to do this, and Chief Awum built his town, which he called Aliese, and appointed a man called Osode to be his second chief.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Awum	Awum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	Aliese	Aliese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	Osode	Osode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the Enfitop people |  |  |  |  | eventually *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Enfitop people *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 3 | **build** | past | Chief | Chief's town |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Product |
| 4 | **call** | past | Chief | Chief's town |  |  |  | Aliese *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
| 5 | **appoint** | past | Chief *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 6 | **call** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | Osode *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | Chief's second chief |  |  |  | Chief *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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