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title: To this they all agreed, and they went on in their usual way killing… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: To this they all agreed, and they went on in their usual way killing and eating a man or a woman every night: but Amoru never eat his share. Who acts: people, usual way, Amoru. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cann
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 63

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To this they all agreed, and they went on in their usual way killing and eating a man or a woman every night: but Amoru never eat his share.

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**Who acts:** people, usual way, Amoru · **What happens:** agree, go on, kill, eat, not eat, share · **To what, where:** usual way, man, share

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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 (people, usual way, Amoru), 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:pg70959:9:63
# text = To this they all agreed, and they went on in their usual way killing and eating a man or a woman every night: but Amoru never eat his share.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
5	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	Amoru	Amoru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go on** | past | people |  |  | people's usual way |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | people's usual way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | people's usual way *not said here* | a man or a woman |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **eat** | infinitive | Amoru | Amoru's share |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient |
| 6 | **share** |  | Amoru |  |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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