Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 15
At Testiculi, de Vaginae vulnere certior factus, dixit Penem Vaginam sanare posse si verbis suis obtemperet; et Penis laetus se velle omnia facere quae necesse essent asseverabat.
Who acts: et Penis laetus · What happens: be · To what, where: velle omnia facere, verbis suis obtemperet
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 (et Penis laetus), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 Testiculi | case |
| 2 | Testiculi | Testiculi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 obtemperet | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 factus | punct |
| 4 | de | de | ADP | _ | 8 factus | case |
| 5 | Vaginae | Vaginae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 vulnere | compound |
| 6 | vulnere | vulnere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 factus | compound |
| 7 | certior | certior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 factus | amod |
| 8 | factus | factus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obtemperet | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dixit | punct |
| 10 | dixit | dixit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 factus | conj |
| 11 | Penem | Penem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 posse | compound |
| 12 | Vaginam | Vaginam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Penem | flat |
| 13 | sanare | sanare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 posse | compound |
| 14 | posse | posse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obtemperet | nsubj |
| 15 | si | si | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 posse | dep |
| 16 | verbis | verbis | X | _ | 18 obtemperet | compound |
| 17 | suis | suis | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 obtemperet | compound |
| 18 | obtemperet | obtemperet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 se | punct |
| 20 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 22 laetus | amod |
| 21 | Penis | Penis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 laetus | compound |
| 22 | laetus | laetus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 se | nsubj |
| 23 | se | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 obtemperet | conj |
| 24 | velle | velle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 facere | compound |
| 25 | omnia | omnia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 facere | compound |
| 26 | facere | facere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 se | obj |
| 27 | quae | quae | X | Foreign=Yes | 26 facere | conj |
| 28 | necesse | necesse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 asseverabat | compound |
| 29 | essent | essent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 asseverabat | compound |
| 30 | asseverabat | asseverabat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 quae | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 obtemperet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | et Penis laetus | velle omnia facere | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot facere=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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