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title: But Nkanyan called out in a loud voice for everyone to come out and… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: But Nkanyan called out in a loud voice for everyone to come out and seize the witches, and very soon they were all caught and securely fastened up. Who acts: everyone. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.,
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 83

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But Nkanyan called out in a loud voice for everyone to come out and seize the witches, and very soon they were all caught and securely fastened up.

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**Who acts:** everyone · **What happens:** call out, come out, seize, catch, fasten up · **To what, where:** Nkanyan, loud voice, witches, houses

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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 (everyone), 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:pg70959:9:83
# text = But Nkanyan called out in a loud voice for everyone to come out and seize the witches, and very soon they were all caught and securely fastened up.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Nkanyan	Nkanyan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | Nkanyan |  | a loud voice |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **come out** | to-infinitive | everyone |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **seize** | infinitive | everyone *not said here* | the witches |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** | past · passive |  | houses *= house* |  |  |  | all, soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **fasten up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | securely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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