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title: After this ceremony was over, all the people went to the chief’s com… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: After this ceremony was over, all the people went to the chief’s compound, where he consulted his head ju-ju man as to what the result of the war with the Inkum people would be. Who acts: ceremony, people, Chief. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--th
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 46

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After this ceremony was over, all the people went to the chief’s compound, where he consulted his head ju-ju man as to what the result of the war with the Inkum people would be.

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**Who acts:** ceremony, people, Chief · **What happens:** be, go, consult, compound, result · **To what, where:** compound, ju man, war

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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 (ceremony, 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:pg70959:7:46
# text = After this ceremony was over, all the people went to the chief’s compound, where he consulted his head ju-ju man as to what the result of the war with the Inkum people would be.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	compound	compound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this ceremony |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | all people |  |  | the chief's compound |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to compound=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **consult** | past | Chief | Chief's ju man |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent man=Theme as what=Value |
| 4 | **compound** |  | the chief |  |  |  |  |  | nom compound «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | the war with the Inkum people |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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