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title: The ju-ju man then made ju-ju, and finally told the Chief that the o… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: The ju-ju man then made ju-ju, and finally told the Chief that the only wife he had, by whom he could get a child was a woman called Iya Agagim. Who acts: ju man, only wife, man. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Ca
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 7

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The ju-ju man then made ju-ju, and finally told the Chief that the only wife he had, by whom he could get a child was a woman called Iya Agagim.

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**Who acts:** ju man, only wife, man · **What happens:** make, tell, have, get, be, call · **To what, where:** ju, Chief, child, woman · **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 (ju man, only wife, man), 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:pg70959:9:7
# text = The ju-ju man then made ju-ju, and finally told the Chief that the only wife he had, by whom he could get a child was a woman called Iya Agagim.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ju	ju	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ju	ju	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	iobj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
34	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	Iya	Iya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	_
36	Agagim	Agagim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the ju man | ju |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ju=Product |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the ju man *not said here* |  | the Chief |  |  | finally *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | the only wife |  |  |  |  | man *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | could | man | a child |  |  |  | by a woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | a woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** | participle |  | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  | Iya *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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