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title: Chief Elullo then invited Chief ’Ndabu to dine with him, and asked h… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Chief Elullo then invited Chief ’Ndabu to dine with him, and asked him to bring his wife and all his children. Who acts: Chief. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 39

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Chief Elullo then invited Chief ’Ndabu to dine with him, and asked him to bring his wife and all his children.

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**Who acts:** Chief · **What happens:** invite, dine, ask, bring · **To what, where:** Ndabu, chief, wife

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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 (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:pg70959:9:39
# text = Chief Elullo then invited Chief ’Ndabu to dine with him, and asked him to bring his wife and all his children.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Elullo	Elullo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	’	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Ndabu	Ndabu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past | Chief |  | Chief's Ndabu |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ndabu=Recipient |
| 2 | **dine** | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with chief | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Chief *not said here* |  | chief |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Chief *not said here* |  | chief's wife and chief's children |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |

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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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