Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 18
“At si quidam” inquit Penis “inimicus mihi gladio instabit jam in vulnere condito, inopinantem interficere poterit.”
To what, where: 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 inquit | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 quidam | case |
| 3 | si | si | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quidam | compound |
| 4 | quidam | quidam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inquit | obl |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quidam | punct |
| 6 | inquit | inquit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | Penis | Penis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 inquit | appos |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 jam | punct |
| 9 | inimicus | inimicus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 jam | amod |
| 10 | mihi | mihi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gladio | compound |
| 11 | gladio | gladio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 instabit | compound |
| 12 | instabit | instabit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jam | compound |
| 13 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inquit | appos |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 condito | case |
| 15 | vulnere | vulnere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 condito | amod |
| 16 | condito | condito | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jam | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 poterit | punct |
| 18 | inopinantem | inopinantem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 interficere | compound |
| 19 | interficere | interficere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poterit | compound |
| 20 | poterit | poterit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jam | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 jam | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 inquit | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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