Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 1
Penis autem olim rure solus habitabat, hand procul a Testiculis, amico ejus, qui magus erat valde peritus, atque fundum proximum incolebat.
Who acts: olim solus habitabat · What happens: hand · To what, where: procul, olim solus habitabat
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (olim solus habitabat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Penis | Penis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 autem | compound |
| 2 | autem | autem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 habitabat | nsubj |
| 3 | olim | olim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 habitabat | amod |
| 4 | rure | rure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 solus | compound |
| 5 | solus | solus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 habitabat | compound |
| 6 | habitabat | habitabat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hand | punct |
| 8 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 habitabat | acl |
| 9 | procul | procul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Testiculis | det |
| 11 | Testiculis | Testiculis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ejus | punct |
| 13 | amico | amico | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ejus | compound |
| 14 | ejus | ejus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 peritus | punct |
| 16 | qui | qui | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 peritus | amod |
| 17 | magus | magus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 erat | compound |
| 18 | erat | erat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 valde | compound |
| 19 | valde | valde | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 peritus | compound |
| 20 | peritus | peritus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ejus | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 incolebat | punct |
| 22 | atque | atque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 incolebat | amod |
| 23 | fundum | fundum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 proximum | compound |
| 24 | proximum | proximum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 incolebat | compound |
| 25 | incolebat | incolebat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ejus | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 habitabat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | infinitive | olim solus habitabat Penis autem not said here | procul | amico ejus and qui valde peritus and atque proximum incolebat obl; a Testiculis obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent procul=Destination testiculis=Theme |
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.
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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