Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Quomodo Evenit Ut Penis Primum Cum Vagina Coiit., sentence 25
(Told by Ennenni, a singing and dancing girl of Okuni.
What happens: tell, dance · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 2 Told | punct |
| 2 | Told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 Ennenni | case |
| 4 | Ennenni | Ennenni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Told | obl:agent |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 singing | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 singing | det |
| 7 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ennenni | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dancing | cc |
| 9 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 singing | conj |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dancing | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Okuni | case |
| 12 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 girl | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | Ennenni obl:agent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | girl of Okuni | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girl=Theme |
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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