Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 19
“Bono animo es” inquit Testiculi “ego enim a tergo vigilabo pro te ne quid infaustum accidat.”
To what, where: animo es
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 | _ | 4 es | punct |
| 2 | Bono | Bono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 animo | compound |
| 3 | animo | animo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 es | compound |
| 4 | es | e | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 es | punct |
| 6 | inquit | inquit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 es | conj |
| 7 | Testiculi | Testiculi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 inquit | appos |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 enim | punct |
| 9 | ego | ego | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enim | compound |
| 10 | enim | enim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inquit | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 vigilabo | det |
| 12 | tergo | tergo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vigilabo | compound |
| 13 | vigilabo | vigilabo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enim | appos |
| 14 | pro | pro | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 vigilabo | dep |
| 15 | te | te | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 accidat | amod |
| 16 | ne | ne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quid | compound |
| 17 | quid | quid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 infaustum | compound |
| 18 | infaustum | infaustum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accidat | compound |
| 19 | accidat | accidat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vigilabo | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 es | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 es | 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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