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title: Then Chief Osode sent invitations to the young men of Enfitop to com… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Chief Osode sent invitations to the young men of Enfitop to come and join their society, and altogether about fifty of them became members. Who acts: Chief, fifty. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 6

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Then Chief Osode sent invitations to the young men of Enfitop to come and join their society, and altogether about fifty of them became members.

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**Who acts:** Chief, fifty · **What happens:** send, come, join, become · **To what, where:** invitations, young men, society, members

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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, fifty), 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:pg70959:7:6
# text = Then Chief Osode sent invitations to the young men of Enfitop to come and join their society, and altogether about fifty of them became members.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Osode	Osode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	invitations	invitation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Chief | invitations | the young men of Enfitop |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme to man=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | infinitive | Chief *not said here* | invitations's society |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | past | fifty of society | members |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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