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title: Amoru then begged the witches to have another round and that when it… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Amoru then begged the witches to have another round and that when it came to his turn again he would give either his father or mother up to be eaten. Who acts: Amoru, that. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibal
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 62

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Amoru then begged the witches to have another round and that when it came to his turn again he would give either his father or mother up to be eaten.

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**Who acts:** Amoru, that · **What happens:** beg, have, come, give up, eat · **To what, where:** witches, round, turn, father · **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 (Amoru, 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:pg70959:9:62
# text = Amoru then begged the witches to have another round and that when it came to his turn again he would give either his father or mother up to be eaten.
1	Amoru	Amoru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
22	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc:preconj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Amoru |  | the witches |  | then |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent witch=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | another round |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | that |  |  | Amoru's turn | again | round *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **give up** | would | Amoru | Amoru's father or mother |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Source |
| 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive · passive | Amoru *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |

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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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