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title: Having done this he would hand the girl over to his best friend to r… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: Having done this he would hand the girl over to his best friend to rub all over with camwood. Who acts: 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 35

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Having done this he would hand the girl over to his best friend to rub all over with camwood.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** do, hand, rub · **To what, where:** this, 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 (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:pg70959:1:35
# text = Having done this he would hand the girl over to his best friend to rub all over with camwood.
1	Having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	camwood	camwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund · perfect | man *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hand** | would | man | the girl |  |  |  | man's best friend *advcl* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 3 | **rub** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with camwood; over *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with camwood=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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