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description: After a short time had elapsed, Chief Awum consulted with Osode as to how they should get some more Enfitop boys to eat. Who acts: Chief, boys. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., with its dependency tr
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 26

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After a short time had elapsed, Chief Awum consulted with Osode as to how they should get some more Enfitop boys to eat.

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**Who acts:** Chief, boys · **What happens:** elapse, consult, get, eat · **To what, where:** short time, more Enfitop boys

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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, boys), 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:pg70959:7:26
# text = After a short time had elapsed, Chief Awum consulted with Osode as to how they should get some more Enfitop boys to eat.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Awum	Awum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Osode	Osode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
21	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elapse** | past · perfect · passive |  | a short time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **consult** | past | Chief |  |  |  |  | with Osode | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with osode=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **get** | should | boys *= boy* | some more Enfitop boys |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | boys *= boy* *not said here* | some more Enfitop boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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