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title: The ju-ju man said that he would live, and that some day one of his… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The ju-ju man said that he would live, and that some day one of his sons would discover something which the Okuni people had never heard of or known before. Who acts: ju man, man, day, Okuni people. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the 
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 28

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The ju-ju man said that he would live, and that some day one of his sons would discover something which the Okuni people had never heard of or known before.

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**Who acts:** ju man, man, day, Okuni people · **What happens:** say, live, discover, not hear, know · **To what, where:** something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ju man, man, day, Okuni people), 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:pg70959:9:28
# text = The ju-ju man said that he would live, and that some day one of his sons would discover something which the Okuni people had never heard of or known before.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Okuni	Okuni	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	obl	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
33	before	before	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the ju man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | would | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **discover** | would | some day | something |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect | the Okuni people |  |  |  |  | which *obj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 5 | **know** | participle | the Okuni people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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