Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 17
Itaque Testiculi “Liquore” inquit “te implebo ita ut erectus fias; deinde i ad Vaginam teque in vulnus insere; quo facto te paene foras extractum iterum atque iterum in vulnus impelle, dum tandem liquorem quo te implevi in vulnus vomes.”
Who acts: i, extractum · What happens: ad, iterum · To what, where: foras, vulnus impelle, Itaque Liquore inquit
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 (i, extractum), 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 | Itaque | Itaque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 inquit | compound |
| 2 | Testiculi | Testiculi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Itaque | flat |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Liquore | punct |
| 4 | Liquore | Liquore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 inquit | compound |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Liquore | punct |
| 6 | inquit | inquit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fias | punct |
| 8 | te | te | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 implebo | compound |
| 9 | implebo | implebo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ita | compound |
| 10 | ita | ita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ut | compound |
| 11 | ut | ut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 erectus | compound |
| 12 | erectus | erectus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fias | compound |
| 13 | fias | fia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 inquit | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 teque | punct |
| 15 | deinde | deinde | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 ad | dep |
| 16 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ad | nsubj |
| 17 | ad | ad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teque | compound |
| 18 | Vaginam | Vaginam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 teque | compound |
| 19 | teque | teque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inquit | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 insere | case |
| 21 | vulnus | vulnus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 insere | compound |
| 22 | insere | insere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teque | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 quo | punct |
| 24 | quo | quo | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 inquit | conj |
| 25 | facto | facto | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 quo | flat:foreign |
| 26 | te | te | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 quo | flat:foreign |
| 27 | paene | paene | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 quo | flat:foreign |
| 28 | foras | fora | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 quo | appos |
| 29 | extractum | extractum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 iterum | nsubj |
| 30 | iterum | iterum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 iterum | compound |
| 31 | atque | atque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 iterum | compound |
| 32 | iterum | iterum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 foras | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 impelle | case |
| 34 | vulnus | vulnus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 impelle | compound |
| 35 | impelle | impelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 iterum | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 quo | punct |
| 37 | dum | dum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tandem | compound |
| 38 | tandem | tandem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 quo | compound |
| 39 | liquorem | liquorem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 quo | compound |
| 40 | quo | quo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 iterum | conj |
| 41 | te | te | X | _ | 40 quo | appos |
| 42 | implevi | implevi | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 te | goeswith |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 vomes | case |
| 44 | vulnus | vulnus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 vomes | compound |
| 45 | vomes | vome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 te | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 inquit | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 inquit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ad in a quote | i | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | iterum in a quote | extractum | foras not said here | vulnus impelle | tandem liquorem quo conj | tree rules |
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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