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title: When Odoggha Eyu arrived at Inkum, he asked the head slave to hand t… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When Odoggha Eyu arrived at Inkum, he asked the head slave to hand the keys of his brother’s house to him, so that he could satisfy himself that everything was in order. Who acts: Odoggha, everything. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bende
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 66

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When Odoggha Eyu arrived at Inkum, he asked the head slave to hand the keys of his brother’s house to him, so that he could satisfy himself that everything was in order.

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**Who acts:** Odoggha, everything · **What happens:** arrive, ask, hand, satisfy, be · **To what, where:** Inkum, head slave, keys, Odoggha, order

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This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Odoggha, everything), 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:pg70959:20:66
# text = When Odoggha Eyu arrived at Inkum, he asked the head slave to hand the keys of his brother’s house to him, so that he could satisfy himself that everything was in order.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Odoggha	Odoggha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Eyu	Eyu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	29	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Odoggha |  |  | Inkum |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Odoggha | the head slave |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient |
| 3 | **hand** | to-infinitive | Odoggha *not said here* | the keys of Odoggha's brother's house to Odoggha |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
| 4 | **satisfy** | could | Odoggha | Odoggha |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | everything |  |  | order |  |  | tree rules |

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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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