Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 21
At Vagina medicinam sibi magnopere profuisse dixit, et Penem precata est ut omni quaque nocte veniret eodem modo vulnus sanaturus.
Who acts: sibi, et · What happens: dixit, ut · To what, where: Vagina medicinam
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 (sibi, et), 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 | _ | 3 medicinam | case |
| 2 | Vagina | Vagina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 medicinam | compound |
| 3 | medicinam | medicinam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | sibi | sibi | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 dixit | nsubj |
| 5 | magnopere | magnopere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dixit | compound |
| 6 | profuisse | profuisse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dixit | compound |
| 7 | dixit | dixit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 medicinam | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ut | punct |
| 9 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 ut | nsubj |
| 10 | Penem | Penem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ut | compound |
| 11 | precata | precata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 est | compound |
| 12 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ut | compound |
| 13 | ut | ut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dixit | appos |
| 14 | omni | omni | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 quaque | nsubj |
| 15 | quaque | quaque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ut | amod |
| 16 | nocte | nocte | X | _ | 18 eodem | compound |
| 17 | veniret | veniret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eodem | compound |
| 18 | eodem | eodem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quaque | conj |
| 19 | modo | modo | X | Foreign=Yes | 18 eodem | conj |
| 20 | vulnus | vulnus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sanaturus | amod |
| 21 | sanaturus | sanaturus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 modo | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 medicinam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dixit | sibi | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ut | et | 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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