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description: Elilli said that she was also very jealous of Iya Agagim having so many children, and that as she was a witch herself she would like to join with Chief Elullo and kill the whole family. Who acts: Elilli, that. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--conc
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 37

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Elilli said that she was also very jealous of Iya Agagim having so many children, and that as she was a witch herself she would like to join with Chief Elullo and kill the whole family.

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**Who acts:** Elilli, that · **What happens:** say, be, have, like, join, kill · **To what, where:** many children, whole family · **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 (Elilli, that), 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:pg70959:9:37
# text = Elilli said that she was also very jealous of Iya Agagim having so many children, and that as she was a witch herself she would like to join with Chief Elullo and kill the whole family.
1	Elilli	Elilli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Iya	Iya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Agagim	Agagim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	Elullo	Elullo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Elilli |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Elilli |  |  |  |  | of Iya; jealous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | Elilli *not said here* | many children |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Elilli |  |  |  |  | as a witch; Elilli *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 5 | **like** | would | that |  |  |  |  | Elilli *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **join** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Chief | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with chief=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **kill** | infinitive | that *not said here* | the whole family |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme |

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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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