Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 13
Quo facto servus, cum Vagina nihilominus inter gemitus vociferabat se vehementer dolentem sanari a Pene opportere, qui causa malorum fuisset, ad Penem regressus ea quae dixerat Vagina nuntiavit.
Who acts: inter gemitus vociferabat · What happens: be · To what, where: Quo facto servus
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 (inter gemitus vociferabat), 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 | Quo | Quo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 servus | compound |
| 2 | facto | facto | X | _ | 3 servus | compound |
| 3 | servus | servus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 se | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cum | punct |
| 5 | cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 servus | conj |
| 6 | Vagina | Vagina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 servus | appos |
| 7 | nihilominus | nihilominus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inter | compound |
| 8 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vociferabat | compound |
| 9 | gemitus | gemitus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vociferabat | compound |
| 10 | vociferabat | vociferabat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 se | nsubj |
| 11 | se | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | vehementer | vehementer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sanari | compound |
| 13 | dolentem | dolentem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sanari | compound |
| 14 | sanari | sanari | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 se | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 opportere | det |
| 16 | Pene | Pene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 opportere | compound |
| 17 | opportere | opportere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 se | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fuisset | punct |
| 19 | qui | qui | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fuisset | amod |
| 20 | causa | causa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 malorum | compound |
| 21 | malorum | malorum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fuisset | compound |
| 22 | fuisset | fuisset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opportere | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ad | punct |
| 24 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opportere | conj |
| 25 | Penem | Penem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ea | compound |
| 26 | regressus | regressus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ea | compound |
| 27 | ea | ea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dixerat | compound |
| 28 | quae | quae | X | _ | 29 dixerat | compound |
| 29 | dixerat | dixerat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ad | conj |
| 30 | Vagina | Vagina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 dixerat | appos |
| 31 | nuntiavit | nuntiavit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dixerat | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 se | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | inter gemitus vociferabat | Quo facto servus and cum | a Pene opportere and qui malorum fuisset and ad and ea quae dixerat and nuntiavit obl:unmarked; vehementer dolentem sanari obj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sanari=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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