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title: The chief gladly accepted the invitation and Elullo prepared large q… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The chief gladly accepted the invitation and Elullo prepared large quantities of palm oil chop and tombo for his guests. Who acts: chief, Elullo. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., with its dependency t
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 40

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The chief gladly accepted the invitation and Elullo prepared large quantities of palm oil chop and tombo for his guests.

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**Who acts:** chief, Elullo · **What happens:** accept, prepare · **To what, where:** invitation, large quantities

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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, Elullo), 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:pg70959:9:40
# text = The chief gladly accepted the invitation and Elullo prepared large quantities of palm oil chop and tombo for his guests.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Elullo	Elullo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	quantities	quantity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tombo	tombo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | the chief | the invitation |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme |
| 2 | **prepare** | past | Elullo | large quantities of palm oil chop and tombo |  |  |  | for chief's guests | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent quantity=Product for guest=Beneficiary |

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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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