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title: Then Chief Elullo said, you have a father and mother and plenty of b… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Chief Elullo said, you have a father and mother and plenty of brothers and sisters, we shall be pleased to eat any of them. Who acts: Chief, you, we. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., with its dep
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 59

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Then Chief Elullo said, you have a father and mother and plenty of brothers and sisters, we shall be pleased to eat any of them.

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**Who acts:** Chief, you, we · **What happens:** say, have, be, eat · **To what, where:** father, any · **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 (Chief, you, we), 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:pg70959:9:59
# text = Then Chief Elullo said, you have a father and mother and plenty of brothers and sisters, we shall be pleased to eat any of them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Elullo	Elullo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Chief |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | you | a father and mother and plenty of brothers and sisters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | shall | we |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | any of sisters |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=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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