Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 24
At si quid incommodi Vagina habeat, vel alio sit qui vehementius rixetur, tum Penis erectus non fit, nec rimam intrare potest.
Who acts: vel alio, nec rimam intrare · What happens: sit, pot · To what, where: qui vehementius rixetur, si quid incommodi
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 (vel alio, nec rimam intrare), 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 | _ | 4 incommodi | case |
| 2 | si | si | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incommodi | compound |
| 3 | quid | quid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incommodi | compound |
| 4 | incommodi | incommodi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obl |
| 5 | Vagina | Vagina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 habeat | compound |
| 6 | habeat | habeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 incommodi | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 incommodi | punct |
| 8 | vel | vel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 alio | compound |
| 9 | alio | alio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | nsubj |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | qui | qui | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 rixetur | compound |
| 12 | vehementius | vehementius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rixetur | compound |
| 13 | rixetur | rixetur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 erectus | punct |
| 15 | tum | tum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 erectus | compound |
| 16 | Penis | Penis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 erectus | compound |
| 17 | erectus | erectus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rixetur | conj |
| 18 | non | non | ADV | _ | 19 fit | compound |
| 19 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 erectus | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 intrare | punct |
| 21 | nec | nec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 intrare | compound |
| 22 | rimam | rimam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 intrare | compound |
| 23 | intrare | intrare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rixetur | conj |
| 24 | potest | pot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 intrare | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | vel alio | qui vehementius rixetur and tum Penis erectus non fit and nec rimam intrare | si quid incommodi and Vagina habeat | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent rixetur=Theme at incommodi=Location | |||
| 2 | pot | present | nec rimam intrare not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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