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title: When he had thus arranged everything to his satisfaction, the young… — Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had thus arranged everything to his satisfaction, the young frog went to the bush buck and challenged him to race for his daughter. Who acts: FROG, young frog. A sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins.
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# Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4, sentence 35

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When he had thus arranged everything to his satisfaction, the young frog went to the bush buck and challenged him to race for his daughter.

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**Who acts:** FROG, young frog · **What happens:** arrange, go, challenge, race, satisfy · **To what, where:** everything, bush buck, FROG

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FROG, young frog), 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:pg70959:21:35
# text = When he had thus arranged everything to his satisfaction, the young frog went to the bush buck and challenged him to race for his daughter.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	buck	buck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	race	race	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | past · perfect | FROG | everything |  |  |  | to FROG's satisfaction; thus *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Product |
| 2 | **go** | past | the young frog |  |  | the bush buck |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to buck=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **challenge** | past | the young frog *not said here* | FROG |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **race** | to-infinitive | the young frog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for FROG's daughter | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **satisfy** |  | FROG |  |  |  |  |  | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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