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title: If, however, she satisfied the man, he would then have her circumciz… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: If, however, she satisfied the man, he would then have her circumcized by her parents, and the man would touch her with camwood. Who acts: girl, man. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 34

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If, however, she satisfied the man, he would then have her circumcized by her parents, and the man would touch her with camwood.

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**Who acts:** girl, man · **What happens:** satisfy, have, circumciz, touch · **To what, where:** man, girl

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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:pg70959:1:34
# text = If, however, she satisfied the man, he would then have her circumcized by her parents, and the man would touch her with camwood.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	circumcized	circumciz	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	camwood	camwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **satisfy** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | girl | the man |  |  |  | however *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | would | man | girl |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient |
| 3 | **circumciz** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by girl's parents | tree rules |
| 4 | **touch** | would | the man | girl |  |  |  | with camwood | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer with camwood=Instrument |

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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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