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title: He advised the chief to pull down all the houses where his other wiv… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: He advised the chief to pull down all the houses where his other wives lived and to send them away. Who acts: man, chief, other wives. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., with its dependency tree and the
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 8

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He advised the chief to pull down all the houses where his other wives lived and to send them away.

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**Who acts:** man, chief, other wives · **What happens:** advise, pull down, live, send away · **To what, where:** chief, houses, wives

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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 (man, chief, other wives), 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:pg70959:9:8
# text = He advised the chief to pull down all the houses where his other wives lived and to send them away.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | man | the chief |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pull down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the chief *not said here* | all houses |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | past | man's other wives |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **send away** | to-infinitive | the chief *not said here* | wives *= wife* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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